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A GUIDE TO THE CHANGES IN ADMINTSTRATIVE DIVISIONS 


OF THE USSR, INCLUDING AREA AND 
POPULATION FIGURES 


Table of Contexts 


I. Preface. 

II. Sources. 

III. Abbreviations and Symbols 

IV. RSFSR . 


Pare 

i 

ii 

iii 


V. Ukrainian SSR. 25 

VI. TTnite Russian SSR. 33 

VII. Caucasian Republics . 35 

VIII. Central Asian Republics and Kazakh SSR . 36 

IX, Baltic Republics, Karelo-Finnish 

SSR and Moldavian SSR. 45 

X. Military Districts . . . . . . 46 

XI. Index. 47 


XII. Chart 


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Preface 


One of the many difficulties encountered by those 7/ho deal with 
Soviet statistics is the fluidity of the territorial-administrative 
structure. Hot only are the names of the territorial sub-divisions 
frequently changed, but their boundaries change also. This introduces 
numerous complications into any statistical comparisons relating to 
particular regions in the USSR, and unless the student is aware of 
the changes in the statistical base, may lead him into serious error. 
Thus, a comparison of textile production in the Moscow Oblast in 1930 
rath that in 1959 would lead to an erroneous conclusion, since in 
1935 and again in 1937 parts of the original ilosccw Oblast were 
detached to form new oblasts « The problem is still further complicated 
by the practice of creating new administrative areas out of parts 
of two or more existing areas rather than by the simple partition 


of one existing area into 


two 


or more new administrative areas. 


i/ 


Thi: 


Guide is an attempt to record the o&rtitioning and frequent 


repartitioning of the Soviet Union Into : di.iin istrstive subdivisions. 
In setting down the historical sequence of changes that have been 
made in the boundaries ana organisation of these units. 


the point 

case of the Union Republics 
die date of organization of an area 


- Vi 
i- i i o 


of departure has been — except 
and the Autonomous Republics — 
as a krai or oblast . Changes have been recorded up until the first 
week in Hay 1945. Only major repertitionings have been included, 
for minor adjustments of boundrxit-.s are not only unimportant in most 
cases, but have been so hrecuent as to rend 

a complete record o* . ^ 

figures for areas ere in square miles 


Uilv. 


miom too difficult for the time 


sk of compiling 
available. The 
as of Hay 1940, unless other¬ 
wise indicated. The population figures, except where other dates are 
given, arc based on the census of 1953. "Then population figures 
for administrative centers arc not given, the town in question had 
in most cases a population of loss than 50,000 at the time of the 
last census. 


The index lists, with page references, all the territorial 
subdivisions, regardless of category, in alphabetical order. 

Attached to the Guid-w is a chart whio i shows the territorial- 
administrative structure of the USSR in terms of the administrative 
units in existence on 1 May 1945. 


discussio of the theory of Soviet “rogionising" 


l/ For a general 

see J. A. Morrison, “The Evolution of the Territorial-Administra¬ 
tive System of the USSR", The American Quarterly on the Soviet 
Union, October 1956. 
















11 


Sources 


Admin is trativnoye d derive SSSR po dannym k 1 maya 1924 yoda . i .'os c or;, 
1924. 


Territorialnoye i administrativnoye deleniye Soyuza SSR na 1-oye yanvarya 

1925 yoda , Lfoscow, 1925. 

Administrativno-territorialnyi sostav SSSR na 1 iyulya 1925 y. i 1 

iyulya 1926 y. v sopostavlenii s dovoyennym deleniyem Rossii , Sostav 
SSSR v yranitsakh na 1 iyulya 192G y . I .osco.v, 1926. 

Territorialnoye i administrativnoye deleniye Soyuza SSR na 1-ye yanvarya 

1926 yoda . Moscow, 1926. 


Territorialnoye i administrativnoye deleniye Soyuza SoR , Mosc on, 1S28. 


Administrativno-terriuorialnoye deleniye Soyuza SSR; Dopolneniye k 8-mu 

izdaniyu s novcishimi dannymi o raionirovannykh v 1929 yodu oblastyakh . 

Moscow, 1929. 


Administrativno-territorialnoye deleniye Soyuza SSR na 15 iyulya 1954 

yoda . Moscow, 1954. 


Administrativno-territorialnoye deleniye Soyuza SSR; K r r.tki spravochnik I v 
na 1 sentyabrya 1955 y . Hoseon, 1935. 


Administrativno-territorialnoye deleniye soyuznykh respublik na 1 narta 

1957 y . Mos c on, 195 7• 


SSSR Adminis trativno-terr it or ialnoye deleniye soyuzrykh respublik, 
iya, proisshedshiye za vr^nya s l/X 1958 yoda dol/lll 1959 yoda . 

1959. 


Izmenen - 

Uoscow 


Administrativno-territorialnoye deleniye Soyuza SSR i spisok vazhneishikh 

naselennykh punktov s knaronoloyiche skin purechnom postanovlerdi ob 

izmenenii yranits yubernii, oblastei i respublik s 1917 do 1929 y . 

Izdardyo 8-oye • Mosc on, 192 9. 

SSSR Administrativno-territorialnoye deleniye Soyuznykh respublik. 

Mo sco*., 1940. 


Novi administrativni raioni USSR, Kharkiv, 1930. 

Vedomosti Vcrkhovnoyo Sovota SSSR (issues consulted: 1958 — 12 May 1945). 

Sotsialistichcskoye Stroitelstvo Soyuza SSR ( 1355-1558 ay. ). Moscow and 
Leningrad, 1939. 


Sulkevich, S. Territoriya i naseleniye SSSR. Moscow, 
Visti Rad Deputativ Trudyashchikh UR SR ; passim . 


Izvostiya ; passim . 


Pravda ; passim . 


1940. 
























































ill 


Abbreviations and Symbols 


5S 


T> 

C 


7Cp 
J Un 


A3 SR 


A.O. 


N.O. 


Est. 


- Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika 
(Soviet Socialist Republic) 

- Sovetskaya Federativnaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika 
(Soviet Federative Socialist Republic) 

- Avtonornnaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika 
(Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic) 

- Avtonornnaya Oblast 
(Autonomous Oblast) 

- Natsionalny Okrug 
(National Okrug) 

- Established 


Adm. c. 
Pop. 

lj 


Administrative Center 
Population 

Enclosing a territorial unit v/ithin brackets indicates 
that it is no longer in existence. 






UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS — USSR 


(Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik — SSSR) 

*- 

Area: 8,378,400 »o. niles fas of December 1940) 

Pop,: 193,000,000 ^as of December 1940) 

Capital: Moscow 

Est, 30 December 1922 by the unification of the RSFSR, the Ukrainian 
SSR, the Tlhite Russian-S3R and the Trans-Caucasian SFSR (the latter in¬ 
cluding the Azerbaidzhan SSR, the Armenian SSR,and the Georgian S3R). 

♦ 

In 1325 two new union republics — the Uzbek SSR and the Turkmen SSR — 
were created on territory formerly part of the RSFSR. In 1929 the,Tadzhik 
A3SR (formerly part of the Uzbek SSR) became a union republic. Two more 

union republics were created in 1336: the Kazakh SSR and tfte Kirgiz SSR, 

* » 

which had been ASSR’s within the RSFSR. In the same year the Trans- 
Caucasian SFSR was abolished, and the Azerbaidzhan, Armenian and Georgian 
republics became immediate members’of the USSR. In 1940 five more union 
republics *-. r ere added to the USSR (the Moldavian SSR, the Karelo-Finnish 
SSR, the Latvian SSR, the Lithuanian SSR, and the Estonian SSR), bringing 
the number of union republics to sixteen. All the union republics together 
now contain IS autonomous republics, 15 of which are within the RSFSR. 



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. "V 

• >■ " • 

• RUSSIAN SOVIET. FEDERATIVE SOCIALIST REPUBLIC — RSFSR 

(Rossiiskaya Sovetslpaya Fe^crativnaya.Sotsiali$ti6heskaya Respublika) 

Area: 6,442,750 sq. miles 

Pop,: 103,809,469 (as of December 1940) 

Capital: Moscow 


The founding of the RSFSR should be dated' from 'the appearance of th^ 
first constitutional document of the RSFSR, the "Declaration of Rights of 
the Toiling and Exploited People," which was issued in January 1918 by 
the Third All-Russian Session of Soviets, The constitution of the RSFSR 
was adopted on 10 July 1918 at the Fifth All-Russian Session of Soviets. 
The RSFSR took the initiative in the founding of the USSR on 30 December 
1922 at which time the RSFSR, the Ukrainian S3R, the White Russian SSR 
and the Trans-Caucasian SFSR were joined together. 

The RSFSR includes the following Krais , Oblasts , and Autonomous 
Republics : 

Altai Krai (Altaiski Krai) 

Area: 112,600 sq. miles 
Pop*: 2,520,084 

Adm. c,: Barnaul (Pop. 148,129) 


Est.: 28 September 1937, when the West Siberian Krai was divided into 
Altai Krai and Novosibirsk Oblast. The West Siberian Krai was formed 
in 1930 when the Siberian Krai (est. in 1925) was divided. 


The Altai Krai includes: 

Oirot A. Q. (Oirotskaya A. 0.) 


Area: 35,950 sq. miles 
Pop.: 161,431 

Adm, c.: Oi r ot-Tura. 

Est,: 1 June 1922. Included in Siberian Krai until 30 July 1930, and 
in the West Siberian Krai until 28 September 1937. 


Archangel Oblast (Arkhangelskaya Oblast) 

Area: 251,750 sq. miles 
Pop.: 1,199,173 


Adm. c.: Archangel (Pop.: 281,091) 

Est.: 23 September 1937, when the Northern Oblast was divided into the 
Archangel and Vologda Oblasts. The Northern Oblast was formed out of a 
pert of the Northern Krai (est. in 1929) when the Komi A. 0. was separ¬ 
ated from it and changed to an autonomous republic on 5 December 1936. 

In addition to territory on the mainland, the Archangel Oblast includes 
the following islands of the Arctic Ocean and Unite Sea : Novaya Zemlya, 
Zemlya Frantsa-Iosifa (Franz Josef Land), Kolguycv, Vaigach, and Hatvcyer 
with a total area of 111,800 sq. miles. 

The xlrchangel Oblast also includes: 

Nenets N. 0. (Nenetskii N. 0.) 


Area; 82,800 sq. miles 
Pop.: (?) 











Adm. c.: 


- o 


Naryan-Liar. 

i 

Est.: 15 July 1929., Included in Northern Krai (est. 14 January 1929) 
until 25 September 1937. 


/Azov-Black Sea Krai (Azovo-C he rnomorski KraijT" 

Area: 70,350 sq. miles (as of 1 March 1937) 

Pop.: 5,955,900 (as of 1 January 1933) 

Adm. c.: Rostov-on-Don. (Pop.:510,253) 

Est.: 10 January 1934. Formed out of part of the original North Cauca¬ 
sian Krai (est. 13 February 1924). The ^zov-Black Sea Krai included the 
Adygei A. 0. and the Northern Oblast (est. beginning of 1934 and changed 
in the middle of the year to the North Don Okrug)• On 11 September 
1937, the Azov-Black Sea Krai was divided into the Rostov Oblast and 
the Krasnodar Krai, the latter including the Adygei A. <7. The Northern 
Oblast had been abolished before that- date. 

The Azov-Black Sea Krai included: 

i 

/Northern Oblast (Severnaya Oblast)/ 

Area: 12,100 sq. miles (as of 1 September 1935) 

Pop.: 646,600 (as of 1 January 1933) 

• * 

Est. early in 1934. Included in Azov-Black Sea Krai. Changed to North 
Don Okrug in the middle of 1954. 

•» * 

Adygei A. 0 . (Adygoiskaya A. 0.) See Krasnodar Krai 


Chelyabinsk Oblast (Che- 1/abinskaya Oblast). 


Area: 62,750 sq. miles „ « 

Pop.: 2,802,949 

Adm. c.: Chelyabinsk. (Pop.: v 273,127) 

Est. (originally) 17 January 1934, when the Ural Oblast (est. 3 November 
1923) ?/as divided into Sverdlovsk, Chelyabinsk, .and Gh-Irtysh Oblasts. 
Included for a short time (1934) the Argayash N. 0. Several Sxmall areas 
of Chelyabinsk Oblast were transferred in'the'summer of 1940 to the 
Kustanai Oblast of the Kazakh S3R. On 3 February 1943 several raions 

were removed to form, with parts of Omsk Oblast, the new Kurgan Oblast. 

« ► 

The Chelvabinsk Oblast included: 

t -• 

/Argayash N. 0. ('Argayashski K.. 0.)7 

Area: 2,600 sq. miles (as of 15 July 1954) 

Pop.: ' 83,900 (as of 1 January 1933) 

Adm. c •: Argayash 

• 1 " » ' . • 

Existed, apparently, only during the year 1934. 








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Chita Oblast (Chitinskaya Oblast) 

Area: 273,000 sq. miles 
Pop.: 1,159,478 


Adm. c.: Chita. (Pop.: 102,555) 


Est.: 26 September 1937. Formed when the East S 
ed into the Chita and Irkutsk Oblasts. The East 
former East Siberian Krai minus the Buryat-liongol 


iberian Oblast was divid- 
Siberian Oblast -was the 
AS3H which was separate. 


from it in 1936. 


The East Siberian Krai was formed in 1930 when the 


Siberian Krai (est. 1925) was divided. 


The East Siberian Krai included 


a Chita Oblast which was abolished 7 December 1934 when the area was 
directly subordinated to the East Siberian Krai. The Chita Oblast at 
one time included the Vitimo-Olekminsk’N. 0. (est. 10 December 1930, and 
abolished in 1938). On 26 February 1940, the boundary between Chita 
Oblast and Khabarovsk Krai was changed. An are^bn the upper part of the 
Kaya River was transferred to the Zeisko-Uchurski raion of Chita Oblast. 


The Chita Oblast includes; 


Aginskoye Buryat-Hongol N. 0. (.winski Buryat-I.longolski N. 0.) 


Area: 10, 750 sq. miles 
Pop.; (?) 

Adm. c.: Aginskoye 

Est. 26 September 1937. 


Chkalov Oblast (Chkalovskaya Oblast) 

Area: 47,800 sq. miles 
Pop.: 1,677,013 


Adm. c.: Chkalov (Pop.: 172,923) 

Est. 7 December 1934, as the Orenburg Oblast. lias formed out of the 
eastern part of the Middle Volga Krai and of several raions of the 
Bashkir ASSR sad Kazak AS5R, respectively. Renamed on 26 December 1938. 
In the summer of 1940 a small area of the Aktyubinsk Oblast, Kazakh SSR 
was transferred to Chkalov Oblast. On 4 October 1940, several populated 
areas were transferred from Chkalov Oblast to Kuibyshev Oblast.* In the 
summer of 1940, the settlement Novo-Nikolaycvka was transferred from the 
Chkalov Oblast to the Bashkir ASSR. 


/East Siberian Krai (Vostochno-Sibirski Krai// 

Area: 691,550 sq, miles (as of 1 September 193.5) 

Pop.: 2,183,300 (as of 1 January 1933) 

Adm. c.: Irkutsk (Pop.: 243,380) 

Est. 50 July 1950, when the Siberian Krai (est. 1925) was divided into 
the East and 'Vest Siberian Krais. Became an oblast when the Buryat- 
Hongol ASSR (est. 1923) was separated from it on 5 December 1S5S 3 and 
put directly under the RSFSR. On 10 July 1930, the Chita area was 
separated from the Far Eastern Krai and added to the East Siberian Krai, 
in which the Chita area subsequently was made an oblast. This old Chita 
Oblast Y/as abolished on 7 December 1934, and its raions subordinated 
directly to the East Siberian Krai. The East Siberian Oblast was divid. 
on 26 September 1937, the western part forming the Irkutsk Oblast and 









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the Trans-Baikal (Chita) area, together with the Zeya Oblast of the Far 
Eastern Krai, forming the new Chita Oblast. The East-Siberian Krai (and 
Oblast) included the Vitimo-Olekminsk N. 0. (est. 10 December 1930), 
which on 26 September 1957, was included in the Chita Oblast and which 
was abolished in 1958. 


/Far Eastern Krai (Dalne-Vos toe hny Krai)[V . 

Area: 1,140,300 sc. miles (as of 1 Ilarch 1937) 
Pop.: 1,830,100 (as of 1 January 1933) 

Adm. c.: Khabarovsk. (Pop.: 199,364) 


1 st. 


(originally) 4 January 1926. Included the Amur, Zeya, Kamchatka, 
r, Earitime, Sakhalin, Ussuri, and Khabarovsk Oblasts and the 


Lower Amu. 

Jewish A. 0. Kamchatka Oblast .included the Koryak and Chukchi (Chukotski. 
N. 0., and-the Lower Amur Oblast included the Okhotsk (Evenki) N. 0. 

was added 
hita area 
abolished 


The Chita Okru:;, originally included in the Far Eastern. Krai, 


to the East Siberian Krai on 10 July 1S30. Subsequently" 


the C 


was made 


oblast in the East Siberian Krai. This oblast w: 


on 7 December 1934. Or. 26 September 1937, this area and the Zeya Oblast 
of the Far Eastern Krai were joined to form the’ new Chita Oblast. The 
Far Eastern Krai was divided on 20 October 1933, into the Khab .rovsk and 
Maritime Krais. 

For the history of the Amur, Kamchatka, Lower moor* Sakhalin and Khabaro¬ 
vsk Oblasts, and the Jewish A. 0., see under Khabarovsk Krai below. The 
Maritime and Ussuri Oblasts appear under the Maritime Krai below. The 
data on Zeya Oblast are as follows: 

/Zeya Oblast (Zeiskaya Oblast )J 


Area: 37,800 sq. miles (as of 1 March 1957) 
Pop.: 116,400 (as of 1 January 1933) 

Adm. c.: Rukhlovo. 


Est. 22 July 1934. On 26 September 1957, the Zeya Oblast and the 
Trans-Baikal area of the East Siberian Oblast were combined in the 
new Chita Oblast. The former Chita Oblast of the East Siberian Krai 
corresponded to the Trans-Baikal (Chita) Okrug which had been 
transferred from the Far Eastern Krai to the East Siberian Krai qn 
10 July 1930. 


Gorki Oblast (Gorkovskaya Oblast) 


Area: 34,450 sq. miles 
Pop.: 3,876,300 

Adm. c.: Gorki (Pop.: 644,100) 

Est. (originally)* 14 January 1929 as the Nizhegorod Krai which included 
the Chuvash A33R, the Udnrurt (Votyak) A. 0. and the Mari A. 0. After 
having been renamed Gorki Krai, it was divided 7 December 1954, The 
northeastern part (incl. the Udmurt area, now an AS5R) and some of the 
western districts became the Kirov Krai, the remainder retained the name 

On 5 December 1936, the Mari A. 0. was made an. .aSSR, and tc 


Gorki Krai. 

gather with the Chuvash ..3SR was taken out of Gorki Krai and put diructl; 
under the RSFSR* the remainder of Gorki Krai became Gorki Oblast. 





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Irkutsk Oblast (Irkutskaya Oblast) 

Area: 547,350 sq. miles 
Pop.: 1,286,696 

t • 

Adm. c,: Irkutsk. (Pop.: 243,580) 


Est. 26 September 1937. Formed out of part of the East Siberian Oblast 
170 st of Lake Baikal. The East Siberian Krai 7/as formed in 1930 v/hen the 


Siberian Krai (formed in 1925) was divided, 
became an oblast 5 December 1936. 


The East Siberian Krai 


The Irkutsk Oblast includes: 

Ust-Orda Buryat-Mongol N. 0. (Ust-Ordynski Buryat-ITongblski N. 0.) 

Area: 7,000 sc. miles 
Pop.: (?) 

•* * 

Adm . c.: Ust-Orda. 

Est. 26 September 1957. 


Ivanovo Oblast (Ivanovskaya Oblast) 

Area: 24,500 sq. miles 

Pop.: 2,650,333 

• Adm. c.: Ivanovo. (Pop.: 285,069) 

Est. (originally), 14 January 1929. On 11 Larch 1936, the oblast was 
divided, the southern half constituting the new Ivanovo Oblast, and the 
northern half forming the net/ Yaroslavl Oblast. - ■ 


Kalinin Oblast (Kalininskaya Oblast) 

Area: 41,100 sq. miles 
Pop.: 3,211,439 

Adm. c.: Kalinin (Pop.: 216,131) 

Est. 29 January 1935. Las formed out of the northern parts of the 
Moscow Oblast (est. in 1929) and Western Oblast (est. 1927) and certain 
southern districts of the Leningrad Oblast (est.' in 1927). 


The Kalinin Oblast formerly included: 

/opochka Okrug (Opochetski Okrug )_7 

Area: 4,400 sq. miles 
Pop.: * (?) 

Adm. c.: Opochka. 


•Est. 11 May 1957, abolished on 5 February 1941. 

/Velikito Luki Okrug (Vcliko-Lukski Okrug )J 

Area: 9,100 sq. miles (as of 1 September 1935) 

Fop.: 305,400 (as of 1 January 1933) 

Adm. c.: Velikiyo Luki. 



Est. 5 February 1955. Abolished sometime between 1 March 1937 
and 1 October 1938. 








/Karelian II. 0. (Karelski N. 0*) 7 


Adm. c.: Likhoslavl 

Est. 9 July 1937, Abolished in early part of 1939 — probably 
late February or early March. 

• t 

Kemerovo Oblast (Kemerovskayu Oblast) 

Adm. c.: Kemerovo (Pop.: 132,978) 

Est. 26 January 1943.Formed out of the south-eastern part of -the 
Novosibirsk Oblast. 


Khabarovsk Krai (Khabarovski Krai) 

Area: 993,050 sq. miles 
Pop.: 1,430,375 


Adm. c.: Khabarovsk (Pop.: 199,364) 


Est. 20 October 1958 when the Far Eastern Krai (est. 4 January 1926) 
v/as divided into the Maritime and Khabarovsk Krais. In addition to the 
territory on the mainland, Khabarovsk Krai also includes '.Vrangel Island 
in the Arctic. The krai is divided into administrative oblasts, the 
only krai in the USSR which is so divided. In addition to these adminis 
trative oblasts, there are several separate raions (not included in the 
oblasts) 7/hich arc immediately subordinated to the. krai central 
executive committee. Also includes one t autonomous oblast. The major 
subdivisions of the Khabarovsk Krai are at present as follows: 


Amur Oblast (Amurskaya Oblast) 


Area: 32,550 sq. miles 

Pop.: 423,300 (as of 1 January 1953) 

Adm. c.: Blagoveshchensk (Pop.; 58,761) 


Est. 20 October 1952 
was an oblast of the 


. Before formation of the Khabarovsk Krai 
Far Eastern Krai 


Kamchatka Oblast (Kamchatskaya Oblast) 

* 

Area: 445,300 sq. miles 

Pop.* 58,300 (as of 1 January 1935) 

* ' 

Adm. c.: Petropavlovsk 


Est. 20 October, 1932. Before formatipn of the'Khabarovsk Krai 
v/as an oblast of the Far Eastern Krai. 


The Kamchatka Oblast includes the following national okrugs: 
Chukchi N. 0* (Chukotski N. 0.) . ; 

t * 

Area: 255,050 sq. miles 

Pop.: 19,100 (as of 1 January 1933) 


Adm. c.j Anadyr 


Est. 10 December 1930 








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Koryak N. 0* (Koryakski M* 0.) 

Area: 120,000 sq. miles 

Pop.: 12,500 (as of 1 January 1935) 

AcLn. c.: Palana (formerly at Penzhinskaya) 

Est. 10 December 1030 

Lower Amur Oblast ( Ni zhue-Anxurskaya Oblast) * 

Area: 212,200 sq. miles 

Pop.: 87,700 (as of 1 January 1933) 

Adm. c•: Nikolayevsk-on-Amur 

Est. 22 July 1934. Before formation of Khabarovsk Krai was an oblast 
of the Far Eastern Krai. 


Sakhalin Oblast ( Sakhalinskaya Oblast) 


Area: 15,700 sq. miles 

Pop.: 70,000 (as of 1 January 1953) 

Adm. c.: Aleksandrovsk 


Est. 20 October 1932. Before ..formation, of 
.oblast of the.. Far. Eastern Krai. 

Jewish A. 0. (Yevrei-skaya A. 0.) 

* 


t he Khabar ovs k ] Crai•was an 

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Area: 14,200 sq. miles 

Pop.: 108,419 

t.' 


Adm* Birobidzhan. 

• - :• ■ 

Est* 7 Fay 1934* Before formation of Khabarovsk Krai was an obitst of 
the Far Eastern Krai. 

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The Khabarovsk Krai has also included the f oil owing subdivisions, subse¬ 
quently abolished: 

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/Khabarovsk Oblast (Khabarovske-yu 0blast)__/ 

Area: 07,900 sq. miles (as of 1 September 1955) 

Pop*: 264,100 (as of 1 January 1933) 


Adm. c.: Khabarovsk (Pop,: 199,364) 


Est*, 22 Ju% 1934 as oblast of Far Eastern Krai. Abolished in JKine 
or July of 1939 and its raions 'directly subordinated to the krai 
central executive committee. 


/Kolyma , xU-ifnis trative Okrug 7 

Area: (?), 

Pop*: (?) 


Adm. c.: Magadan 

Est, about Any ist 1959 0 
subc.dinated directly to 


Abolished later in ^nne year ar.i reions 
krai central executive committee. 










Kirov Oblast (Kirovskaya Oblast) 


Area: 40,750 sq. miles 

Pop.: 2,226,109 

Adm. c.: Kirov (Pop.: 143,131) 


Est. (originally) 7 December 1934 as a krai, 'Then the original Gorki 
Krai was divided. Some of the western districts of the Sverdlovsk Oblast 
and the Udmurt AS3R were assigned to the new krai. ’When the Udmurt 
ASSR Y/as placed directly under the RSFSR on 5 December 1936, the Kirov 
Krai became the Kirov Oblast. 


Krasnodar Krai (Krasnodarski Krai)* 

Area: * 31,100 sq. miles 

Pop.: 5,172,885 

Adm. c.: Krasnodar (Pop.: 203,946) 

Est. 13 September 1937, when the Azov-Black Sea Krai was divided into 
the Rostov Oblast and the Krasnodar Krai. The Azov-Black Sea Krai was 
established on 10 January 1934, when it Y;as separated from the North 
Caucasian Krai, which was formed on 13 February 1924. On 7 January 1941, 
the island of Srednyaya Koza (Tuzla) was transferred from Krasnodar Krai 
to the Crimean ASSR. 

The Krasnodar Krai includes: 

Adygei A. 0. (Adygeislcaya A. 0.) 

Area; 1,500 sq. miles 
Pop.: 241,773 


Adm. c.: I.hikop. (Pop.: 67,302) 

Est. *27* July 1922, as Cherkess (Adygei) A. 0. Renamed Adygei 
(Cherkess) A. 0. 24 August 1922. Included in North Caucasian Krai 
(est. 13 February 1324), Azov-Black Sea Krai (est. 10 January 1934) 
and Krasnodar Krai (est. 13 September 1937). 


Krasnoyarsk Krai (Krasnoyarski Krai) 

Area: 827,700 sq. miles 

Pop.: 1,940,002 ' V . % 

Adm. c.: Krasnoyarsk. (Pop.: 189,999) 

Est. 7 December 1934, by detaching the northern and western parts of the 
East Siberian Krai and a part of the West Siberian Krai. 

The Krasnoyarsk Krai includes: 

Khakass A. 0. (Khakasskaya A. 0.) 

, * » • 

Area: 22^600 sq. miles 

Pop.: 270,655 


Adm. c•: Abkan• 

Est. 20 October 1930. Until the formation of the Krasnoyarsk Krai 
(7 December 1934) it-was part of the West Siberian Krai. 







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V • 


Evenki N. 0. (Evenkiiski N. 0.) 

r . 

Area: 209,100 sq. miles '' '* - : .. 

Pop.: 4,900 (as of 1 January 1933) 

v • • r . 

# 

Adm. c•: . Tura * - 

Est. 10 December 1930. Before the formation of the Krasnoyarsk Krai 
(est. 7 December 1934) it was ’included in the East Siberian Krai 
(est. 30 July 1930). 

Taimyr (Dolgano-Neneta) N.O. (.Taimyrski (Dolgano-Nenetski) N.0.) 

Area: 286,700 sq. miles , ; 

Pop.: 3,000 (as of 1 January 1933) , , 

Adm. c•: Dudinka. 

Est. 10 December 1930.,. Before the formation of the Krasnoyarsk Krai 
(7 December 1934) the Taimyr N.O. was included in the East Siberian 
Krai-(est. 30 July 1930). 


Kuibyshev Oblast (Kuibyshevskaya Oblast) 

Area: 33,500 sq. miles 

Pop.: 2,767,562 

Adm. c.: Kuibyshev (Pop.: 390,267) 

Est. 5 December 1936, when the Mordvin ASSR was detached from the former 
Kuibyshev Krai. Previous to 1935 the Kuibyshev Krai was called the 
Middle Volga Krai. The original Middle Volga Krai was established 
10 January 1930 when the Mordvin Okrug was made an A.0. and attached 
to the then Middle Volga Oblast (est. 14 May 1928). . On 7 December 1934 
the original Middle Volga.Krai was divided,' the eastern part being 
detached and included in the new Orenburg Oblast, the western part re¬ 
taining the original name. On 4 October 1940, several populated areas 
were transferred from Chkalov Oblast to Kuibyshev Oblast. A small area 
was transferred from the Tatar ASSR to Kuibyshev Oblast on 7 October 1940. 

Kurgan Oblast (Kurganskaya Oblast) 

9 . , 

Area: (?) 

Pop.: (?) ‘ ’ ’ . 

• -.'it..:. 

Adm.* c.: Kurga'h (Pop.: 53,224) 

Est. 6 February 1943. Formed from parts of Chelyabinsk and Omsk Oblasts. 


Kursk Oblast (Kurskaya Oblast) 

Area; 21,100 sq. miles ' 

Pop.; 3,196,814 * . 

Adm. c. Kursk. (Pop.: 119,972) 

Est. 13 June 1934, when the Central Black Soil Oblast (est. 1928) was 
divided into the Kursk and Voronezh Oblasts, On 27 September 1937, a 
part of the Kursk Oblast was included in the Orel Oblast, which was 
formed on that date. In December 1939, the Dolgorukovo raion of Kursk 
Oblast was transferred to Orel Oblast. On 7 October 1940, Glotovo area 
was transferred from Voronezh Oblast to Kursk Oblast. 









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Leningrad Oblast (Leningradskaya Oblast) 

Area: 55^500 sq. miles 

Pop.: 6,42.5,100 

Adm. c.: Leningrad (Pop,: 3,191,300) 

■ *. 

Est. (originally) 1 August 1927, In 1935 *d' number of raions in the 
southern part of the oblast were detached to form, together with parts 
of adjoining oblasts, the nevf Kalinin Oblast; on 23 September 193,7 
several raions in the eastern part of the oblast were detached to form, 
vdth other territory, the new Vologda Oblast. On 29 May 1938 the 
Murmansk Okrug 'which had been part of the Lehingrad Oblast (although 
separated from the rest of it by the Karelian ASSR) was detached and 
established as a separate oblast. 


The Leningrad Oblast has included (at one time or another) the follovdng 
okrugs: 

Kingisepp Okrug (Kingisoppski Okrug) 

Area: 2,850 sq. miles 

Pop.: 129,100 (as of 1 January 1935) • • 

Adm. c•: Kingisepp 
Est. 22 March 1935 
/Pskov Okrug (Pskovski Okru g)J 

Area: 6,500 sq. miles 

Pop.: 517,500 (as of 1 January 1933) 

Adm. c,: Pdc ov 

Est. 22 March 1935. Abolished 19 September 1940. 

/Murmansk Okrug (Mur man ski Okrug )J . 

Area: 49,000 sq. miles (as of 1 September 1935) 

Pop.: 112,300 (1 January 1933) 

t 

Adm. c.: Murmansk 

Est. (?) Became Murmansk Oblast, 29 May 1938. 

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■ower Volga Krai 


(Nizhne—Volzhski Krai )J 


Area: 125,950 sq. miles (as of 1929) 

Pop.: 5,342,541 (as of 1936) 

Adm. c.: Saratov (Pop.: 375,860) 


Est. in 1923. Included the Volga German ASSR (est. 19 December 1923) 
and the Kalmyk A.O. (est. 25 October 1920). The Lower Volga Krai was 
divided on 10 January 1934, into the Saratov Krai (including the Volga 
German /iSSR) and the Stalingrad :Krai (including the' Kalmyk- A,0.). 

5 December 1936, the Kalmyk A.O. was made as -ASSR and was put, along 
mth the Vol^a German ASSR, directly under the RSFSR.. Th e Saratov and 
Stalingrad Krais thus became oblasts. 








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Maritime Krai (Primorski Krai) ; • ' 

■ • 

Area: 79,300 sq. miles * r " 

Pop*: 907,220 

Adm. c.: Vladivostok* (Pop.: 206,432). 

* 4 

Est. 20 October 1938. Formerly the Maritime Oblast, was included in 
the Far Eastern Krai (established in 1926). 

The Maritime Krai includes (or included): 

/Maritime Oblast (Primorskaya Oblast}/ 

Area: 37,350 sq* miles (as of 1 March 1937) 

Pop.: 415,300 (as of 1 January 1933) 

Adm. c*: Vladivostok (Pop.: 206,432) 

V 

Est. 20 October 1932 in the Far Eastern Krai where it remained 
until the creation of the Maritime *.Krai. Abolished late in June 
or early in July, 1939, and its raions subordinated directly 
to the central executive committee of the Maritime Krai. 

. ♦ * 

Ussuri Oblast (Ussuriiskaya Oblast) 

* 

Area: 42,450 sq. miles 

Pop.: 375,000 (as of 1 January 1933) 

Adm. c.: Voroshilov (Pop.: 70,628) 

• . « 

Est. 22 July 1934. Until 20 October 1938, included in Far Eastern 
Krai. 


/Middle Volga Krai (Sredne-Volzhski Krai}/ 

Area: 93,750 sq. miles (as of 15 July 1934) 

Pop.: 7,590,200 (as of 1 January 1933) 

Adm. c.: Samara (Pop.: 390,267) 

Est. 14 May 1928 as an oblast including the Mordvin Okrug, Became a 
krai when the Mordvin Okrug was made an Autonomous Oblast on 10 Janu¬ 
ary 1930. On 7 December 1934, the Middle Volga Krai was divided and 
the Orenburg Oblast was formed out of the eastern part of its territory 
together with several raions of the Bashkir ASSR and Kazak ASSR. At 
the same time the Orsk Industrial (Promyshlenny) Okrug,included in 
the Middle Volga Krai up to that time, was abolished. The Middle 
Volga Krai was renamed Kuibyshev Krai (1955) and Samara was renamed 
Kuibyshev. The Mordvin Autonomous Oblast-became an ASSR on 20 December 
1934, and on 5 December 1956 was put directly under the RSFSR, Kuibysne' 
Krai becoming Kuibyshev Oblast. 

Molotov Oblast (Molotovskaya Oblast) 

Area: "64,500 sq. miles 
Pop.: 2,082,166 

Adm, c.: Molotov. (Pop.: 255,196) (Former name: Perm) 

as Perm Oblast 

Est. 3 October 1958/out of the western part of Sverdlovsk Oblast. 
Sverdlovsk Oblast was formed on 17 January 1934, when the Ural Oblast 
(est, 3 November 1923) was divided into the Chelyabinsk, Sverdlovsk 
and Ob-Irtysh Oblasts. On 8 March 1940, Perm Oblast was renamed 
Molotov Oblast. 







The Molotov Oblast includes! 

• ioint-Pcrii I V O, (Koraj-PexTByatski N«0 : «) 

Area? 11,500 aq. miles 

Fop o : 100,000 (1 Janyary 19b5) 

Aclrn. c*, Kudymkar. 


Kat. 00 February 1925. Prior to the division of Sverdlovsk Oblast 
and the formation of Perm (Molotov) Oblast, the Komi-Pern ; .0. 
was included in Sverdlovsk Oblast) before that, it was ir.olv.ded in 
the Ural Oblast, 


Moscow Oblast (Lloskovskaya Oblast) 

Area: 13,100 so* miles 

Pop.? 8,318,000 

Adm. c,: j’ ’oscow (Fop. ? 4,137, 000) 

Est* (originally)14 January 1923. On 23 January 1955, the northern 
part of the Moscow Oblast was incorporated in r.he newly formed Kalinin 
Oblast, On 26 September 1937, Tula Oblast was Permed out of the south¬ 
ern half of Moscow Oblast. Cr. the same date a pari of Moscow Oblast 
-ras incorporated in the newly formed Ryazan Oblast. 


! km anskObl as • (1 la r; dc ns k ays CM as t) 


Area: 55,650 

Pop.: 201,138 


O r• 


Adm. c 


Murrmsk (P p. 


■■'if? r r ‘ "S 

j.-L / , j 


Est. 29 Ma 1358* iefore that date »' -a • x 2 -wonsk Okrug, a part of the 
Leningrad Oblast (est. 1 August 1027). ’Then the 'Murmncsk Okrug was 
transformed into an Oblast the handais]isha Maion — the northern tip 
of the Karelian ,.33R •— was added to it. 


/hizhegorod Krai (Mizhegorodski Krai )_J 

« 

Area: 103,200 sq. miles (as of 15 July 1934) 

Pop.: 8,145,300 (as of 1 January 1S33) 

Adm. c.: I’izhni-Novgorod. 

Est. 14 January 192S. Included the Chuvash AS3R, the Udmurt (Votyak) 
A.O. and the Mari A.0. ,iftor having been renamed Gorki Krai, 
it was divided on 7 December 1954, the northeastern part (including 
the Udmurt area, now an ,iS3R) and some of the western districts forming 

the new Kirov Krai. The Mari A.O. became an ddSR on 5 December 1936, 

and it, as well as the Chuvash ,J3SL, was put directly under the R0P 
The remainder of the Gorki Krai became an oblast. 


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'Northern Oblast (Severnaya Oblast )_J 

Area's 289,500 sc * nllcra (as of' 1 March 1037) 
Pop,: 2,455,300 (as of 1 -Jamary 1935) 


Adirn o*: Archangel* ,Pop.; 281,00 

Est. 14 January 1929, as the Northern Krai. It included t e Komi A.0. 
(esc-. 22 August 1921), the Nenets KAO. (est. 15 July 3 029) and tno 
Islands of the /arctic Ocean and White Oca ('franc Josef’s Land, Ko.I.-aiyev 
Novaya Zaviiya, Solovetskye Isl.) Became an oLiasb when Koi.ri ...0 
was promoted to an I.SSR on 5 December 1036 and placed direct!* -a a-,:.* 
the RSFSR. Dissolved vrhen divided into .archangel and lo,_ ; a.,/.acts 
on 23 September 1937. 


/North Caucasian Krai (Dovero-Kavkaseki Krai)_/ 


Area; 
Pop.: 


l sq. ' les (as >i 1 ibor 1935) 

3,922,700 (as of 1 y 1955) 


Aon. c r ; Ordzhonikidze- (Po- .: 127,172) (former name: Vladikavkaz) 

the 

Est. 15 February 1924. Ben ore that/area was ’ 'iiown as the Southeastern 
Oblast * Ori anal capital: Aostov-on-Dor.• In January. 1934, the 

northwestern part of the krai was detached to for:., the now Azov-Black 
Sea Krai, the remainder retaining its original name until 15 March 
1937 when it was renamed Ordzhonikidze Aral. Temporary capital as of 
1 March 1957: Pyati "ursk. The North Caucasian Krai included the 
Adygei (Oho .kcss), Kabardino-Pulkar, K-aracIiayev-CherkcSs, and the 
Chechen A.O., and, until 5 December 1930, the Dagestan ASSN. 

Novosibirs k O blas t (Ilovoeibirska; a 6biast1 

Area: '256,850 so. miles 

Pop.: 4,022,700 

Adm. cA: ilovosibirt:/: (Pop.: 405,539) 

Est.•28 September 1957, when the for acr Lost Siberian Krai t as divided 
into the Novosibirsk Oblast and the Altai Krai. The Most Siberian 
Krai was established in 1980 waon the Siberian Krai (est. in 1925) 
was divided, On 26 January 1943, a portion of southeastern par-t of 
Novosibirsk Oblast was d bached to form the now [ojacrovo Oblast-.- 

The Novosibirsk Oblast includes: • 

Narym Ok rug (Nary is ki Okrug) 

Area: 118,050. sq. .bios 

Pop... 128, 800 (as 1 A January 1353) 


, iCU'i? 


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J_jS 


: no.Lpc Siiovo. 


t. 10 June 1952, Was part of the Nest Siberian Krai (est, 30 
July 1050) until 23 September 1937. 


/OD-Irtysh Oblast (Obsko-Ir tyshskaya 0blasb)_7 


Area: 508,900 sq. miles (as of 15 July 1934) 
Pop.: 486,000 (as of 1 January 1953) 

Adm. c.: Tyumen. (Pop.: 75,537) 














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Est. 17 January 1954, -when the Ural Oblast (ost. 3 lJovcmoe] 
was divided into the Chelyabinsk, Sverdlovsk, and Ob-Irtysh Oblasts, 
superseded by the Omsk Oblast (7 December 1054) which included 


Was 

not 


. j> 
' v- 


only the territory of the Cb-Irtysh Oblast, but also parts • 
the ’.Test Siberian Krai and of the Chelyabinsk Oblast. The Ob-Irtysh 
Oblast included the Yamal - Nenets N.G. and the Ostyako-Vogulsk 1.0. 
(both est. on 10 December 1950). 


Omsk Oblast (Omskayt Oblast) 


Area: 556,200 sq. miles 
Pop.: 2,366,GOO 

Adm. c.: Omsk (Pop.: 280,710) 


Est. 7 December 1934. Formed out of the Ob-Irtysh Oblast (est. 17 
January 1934) and parts of the Test Siberian Krai (est. 30 July 
1930) and of the Chelyabinsk Oblast (est. 17 January 1954). On 6 
February 1943 some raii-ns -..-•ere detached to form, together with several 
raions of Chelyabinsk Oblast, the new Kurgan Oblast. 


:he Omsk Oblast has include4, -t one time or 


ano1her 


the 


foil owing: 


/bara Okrug (Tarski Okrurj/ 

Area: 29,350 sq. miles 

Pop.: 248,400 (as of 1 January 1935) 

Adn. c.: Tara. 


Est. 15 November 1933. 
30 July 1930) until the 
23 November 1940. 


Included in '.Test Siberian Krai (est. 
formation of Omsk Oblast. Abolished 


Tobolsk Okrug (Tobolsk! Okrug) 

Area: 37,350 sq. miles 
Pop.: (?) 

Adm. c.: Tobolsk. 


Est. 10 December 1933. 


Khanty-4 ansiisk II.0. (Khanty-ikinsiiski 


■T n 

. • te i 


Area: 225,300 sq. miles 

pop.: 102,200 (as of 1 January 1933) 

Adm. c.: Khanty-’"ansiisk (formerly Sanarovo) 


Est. 10 December 1930 as the Ostyak-Vogul 11.0. Included in 
Ob-Irtysh Oblast from 13 January to 7 December 1954. 


/Ostyak-Vogul II, 0. (Ostiakc-Vogulskii IhO.j/- see 
Yamal-Nenets N.O. (Yarnalo-Nenetski IT.O.) 


Khar. ty-I 'ansiie : 


-.T r 

- • - 


Area: 244,650 sq. miles 

Pop.: 29,500 (as of 1 January 1935) 

Adm. c•: Salegard 


Est. 10 December 1930. Was included in the Ob-Irtysh Oblast from 
17 January 1954 to 7 December 1934, and before that, in the Ural 
Oblast (est. 3 November 1923). 








16 


/Ordz honikidze Krai (Ordzhonikidzevski krai jj 


Ar ea • 3 9,950 sq t mile s 

Pop,: 1,949, 340 


Adm, c.: Voroshilovsk (Pop* ; 85,100) (former name; Stavropol) 


Est. January 1934 as North Caucasian Krai as result of division of 
former North Caucasian Krai (est. 13 February 1924), Henared Ordz Mon} 
kidze Krai 13 March 1937 and Stavropol Krai sometime between 20 
December 1942 and 14 March 1943. 


/Orenburg O blast (Orenburgskaya Oblast )_7 




Area; 36,000 sq. miles (as of 1 September 1955) 
Pop,: 1,510,700 (or: of 1 Ja .. iU ar y 1 <.y o) 


Adm. c o: Orenburg (Chkatov) 


Est. 7 December 1934. Formed out of the eastern part of the former 
Middle Volya Krai and several raions of the Bashkir ASSR and Kazak 
ASSR, It was renamed Ghkalovskaya Oblast and the city of Orenburg 
was renamed Ghkalov on 20 December l938. 


Orel Obla st, (OrlovsIcaya Oblast) 


Area 

: 25,250 

SQ • 

miles 




Pop, 

: 5,432, 

400 





Adm. 

e <,: Ore 

“1 

— ■» 

(Pop V • 

11C 

^,567) 

■ 

Est a 

Zi depte 

riber 

J.937.. 

For 

mod out 

of carts 

(est 

. 13 Juno 

195 

PC j e Uli O 

V or 

onezh Oblast (est 

the 

r ;A is tern G 

o.'.as 

t (est. 

14 

January 

1929). 

Penza 

Obiast 

Penzenskaya 

C'bl 

ast ) 


Area 

: 17,20C 

o '*■< 
w - Ml • 

miles 




Pop. 

: 1,708, 

656 



* 


Adm. 

c.: Penza. 

(Pop.: 

157,145) 

• 


at 


Est* 4 February 1939, when the Tambov Oblast was divided, the western 
half retaining the name Tambov Oblast and the ‘eastern half becoming 
the Penza Oblast, 


/Perm Oblast (Permskaya Oblast)__/ 
64,500 sq. miles 


Area 


Pop, 


2,082,162 


Adm. c.: Perm (Pop.: 255,196), renamed Molotov, 


Est. 5 October 1968 out of western part of Sverdlovsk Oblast which 
was formed 17 January 1934 risen Ural Oblast (est. 3 November 1923) 
was divided into Chelyabinsk, Sverdlovsk and Ob-Irtysh Oblasts* 


Name changed to Molotov Oblast C March 1940. 













17 


Rostov Oblast (Rostovskaya Oblast) 


urea; 

00 

CO 

,900 sc. 

Pop.: 

0 

( 9 

894,097 

Adm. 

c 0 : 

Rostov- 

Est. 

11 September 

1954) 

was 

divided 

Ryazan 

Obla 

vt (Rya 

Area: 

17 

,750 sq. 

Pop.: 

2. 

+ 

0 or pn r ~ 
k. Oo. C > l u 

Adm. 

c.: 

Ryazan 

iliSu • 

26 September 

(est. 

13 

June 193' 

Saratov 

Obi 

ast (Sa. 

Area: 

31 

,800 sq. 

Pop.: 

1,- 

798,805 

Adm. 

c , • 

3oratov 

Est • 

(as 

a krai) ! 


)5,35G) 


was divided into Saratov Krai (including the Volga Gerxn A33R) and 
Stalingrad Krai (including the Kalmyk 1.0.). Saratov Krai became an 
oblast on 5 December 195G when the Volga Penman A33R was detached from 
it and subordinated directly go the RSFSR. 


/Siberian Kra i (SibirsId Krai )_y‘ 

Area: 1^629,700 sq. miles (as of 1329) 

Pop,.. 8, 661,317 (as of 1926) 

Adm. c.: dovo-IIikolayevsk• 

Est. 25 lay 1925. Divided on 50 July 1930 into Vest Siberian and 
East Siberian Krais. 


v 


Smolcnsk Obiast (Smolenskaya Oblast) 


Area: 27,900 sq. mi? es 

Pop.: 2,690,779 

Adm. c.: Smolensk (Pop.: 156,677) 


Oblast 


Est. 27 September 1937 when the Western 
was divided into the Smolensk Oblast and the 


(, 

'*•' *■ 

f j-VO, .1 

\ js . o-L 


it. 14 
Obias J 


January 


1929) 


/South-Eastern Oblast (Yugo-Vostochnaya Oblast) / 

Area: 65,500 sq. miles(as of 1 September 1935) 

Pop.: 3,922,700 (as of 1 January 1933) 

Adm. c.: Rostov-on-Don (Pop.: 510,255) 

Est. 13 February 1924. Renamed Forth Caucasian Krai the 
See I-Iorth Caucasian Krai. 


; one 


ir. 











113 


Stalingrad O blas t (31al ingradska/a Cbl„st} 
Area: 53,500 sq. miles 


Pop*: 3,309.049 


A ir.:, c,: Stalingrad (Pop* t 445,4'.'6) 

Est. 10 January 1934, when tlie Lov:er Volga Aral (est. 
'..divided into Stalingrad Krai (including the Kaluyk A.C.) 
Saratov Krai (including the Volga 3ornan A3SE). Staling, 
became an oblast on 5 December 1936 when the Kalmyk A.O* 
A33R and subordinated directly to the RSFSR. 

The Staling.! • ad Obi as t inc ludc-s; 

Astrakhan Okrug (.Astrakhanski Okrug) 


•■/as 
and tlic 
ad Krai 
was .lx 


Irea; 
Pen.; 


13,500 sq_ miles 

r?> 


Adm. 


Astral: an* 


( i-V 


J. \ .* ' *» o 


.... Gb5) 


J.’fw' b » -to tJ • . if i 


Stavropol k rai (btavropolski llrai) 


j?ea t 39,550 sc , ni 1 c;; 


Pop*; 1,949,040 

Aden c.; Stavropol (Pop,; 85.100) (between 1937 and 1945 it was 
name a To roe 1 ill: ok}. 


Fcrmrerly Ordzhonikidze Aral 


bo.for 


that North Caucasian Krai 


In January 1934 the original North Caucasian Krai (est. 13 February *y 


1924) 


was divided, a part of it forming the Azov-Black Sea 


Kr;i and the 


remainder retaining the name North Caucasian Krai, this latter was 
renamed Ordzhonikidze Krai on 13 larch 1037 and Stavropol Krai some¬ 
time between 20 December 1942/and 14 lurch 1943. 


The Stavropol Krai includes; 

Churl:css Ar e (Clicrnesskaya A.G.) 

r 

Area; 1,300 sq. miles 

■p__ no r r z a 

r u\ju : 0%J*X 

Adn. c,: Cherkessk. 


Est. 30 April. 1028. 

Karacliaycv A»0. (harachayevskaya A.G.)‘ 

Area; 4,200 sq. miles 
Pop.; 149,025 

Adn. c.; Uikoyan-Shakl ar. 

Est. 12 January ]. 02 2. 













12 


Kizlyar Okruy ( Ki zlyar 3 ki Okrug) 

Area: 9,000 sq, miles 

Pop.: (?) 

Adn. c,: Ki zlyar. 

Est. 22 February 1958* 


Sve r dlov sk Ob last (SverdlovskayaOblas i) 

Area: 74,500 sq. miles 
Fop.: 2,512,175 

Adm. c.: Sverdlovsk (Pop.: 425,544) (i'omer name: Ye kale rinbur 3 ) 

Est. (in present boundaries) 5 October 1933 when Perm (subsequently 
I.olotov) Oblast formed out of western part of original Sverdlovsk 
Oblast which was established 17 January 1934 when Ural Oblast (est 3 
Ilovember 1223) was divided into Sverdlovsk, Chelyabinsk and Ob- 
Irtysh -Oblasts. 


1 "jnbov Oblast (Tambovskaya Oblast) 


Area: 15,750 sq. miles 
Pop.: 1,882,139 

Adm. c.: Tambov (Top.: 121,285) 


Est. (in present boundaries; 4 Fe 
formed out of the eastern half of 
established 2G September 1357 out 


bruary 1332 
the origina 
of parts of 


when Penza Oblast was 
3. Tambov Oblast which 
the Voronezh Oblast 


(est. 


13 


June 


1234) 


and an 


Kuibyshev 


Oblast (est. 14 hay 1934). 


was 


/Central 


Black Soil Oblast (Tsentrulno-Chernozejanays. Oilast)_/ 


Area: 74,300 so. miles (as of 1929) 
Pop.: 11,146,743 (as of 1926) 

Adn. c.: Voronezh (Pop*: 528,330) 


Est. 1928. has divided into the Voronezh 
13 June 1934. 


and Kursk Oblasts 


on 


Tula Oblast (Tulskaya Oblast) 

Area: 12,300 sq, miles 
Pop.: 2,049,950 

Adn. c.: Tula (Pop.: 2 72,405) 

Est. 26 September 1937. Formed out of the southern part of ho scow 
Oblast (est. 4 January 1929). 


U1yanovsk Oblast (Ulyanovsknya Oblast) 

Area t (?) 

Pop.: (?) 

Adm, c.: Ulyanovsk (Pop.: 102,100) 


Est. 19 January 1943, out of 
and Penza Oblast (2 raiens). 


parts of Kuibyshev Oblast (24 
Includes cities of Ulyanovsk 


radons) 
and Melekes 










20 


/Ural Ob last (Uralskaya Oblast)__/ 


A v 
ila. 


ea: 630,155 sow nil.es (as of 1029) 

Pop*,: 6,000,000 (as of 1926) 

Adn. c»: Sverdlovsk (Pop.: 425,544) 

Est. 5 November 1023. Divided 17 January 1934 into the Chelyabinsk, 
Sverdlovsk and Ob-Irtysh Oblasts. 


Ussuri Oblast — see under Paritime Krai. 


Vologda Oblast (Vologodskaya Oblast) 

Area: 57,000 so. rales 
Pop.: 1,632,258 

Adn. c.: Vologda (Pop.: 95,194) 

Est. 23 September 1937, alien the Northern Oblast was divided into the 
Vologda and Archangel Oblasts- The Northern Oblast was established on 
5 December 1936 when the 7. xvi A. 0. was detached from the Northern 

Krai (est. in 1929) and changed bo an autonomous republic. A 
strip of territory taken from, the Leningrad Oblast was added to 
Vologda Oblast when the latter was established. 


Voronezh Oblast (Voronezhskaya Oblast 

Area: 26,050 sq. miles 
Pop.: 3,551,000 


Adm. e.: Voronezh (Pop.; 


r? O r* r* r* \ 

.'•*/ J y C D U j 


Est. (in present boundaries) 26 September. 1937 who l part of the 
original Voronezh Oblast was assigned to U . n \ b. T 

original Voronezh Oblast was established 15 June 1934 when the Central 
Black Soil Oblast, (est. in 1928) was divided,into the Voronezh and 
Kursk' Oblasts. 


/Western Obla st (Zapadnaya Oblast jj 

Area: 44,100 sq. miles (as of 1 March 

Pop.: 5,250,100 (as of 1 January 1933) 

Adm. c.: Smolensk (Pop.: 156,677) 


37) 


Est. 14 January 1929. Northern part taken, 29 January 1535, together 
with adjoining areas, bo* for:: Kalinin Oblast. Southern part taken, 

27 September 1937, together with adjoining areas, to form Orel Oblast; 
at this tine the remainder was renamed Smolensk Oblast. 


'Vest Siberian .".raj (Zapadno-Sibirski Krai)_J7 


Area: 349,550 sq. miles (as of 1 arch 1937) 
Pop.: 6,140,800 (as of 1 January 1935) 


Adn. c ,: .Novosibirsk (poo.: 405589 


Est. 30 February 1930, when the Siberian Krai (est. 25 Hay 1925) was 
divided into the Most Siberian and East Siberian Krais. The Mast Siber¬ 
ian Krai was divided on 23 September 1937, into the Novosibirsk Oblast 
and Altai Krai. Alien the Omsk Oblast was formed on 7 December 1954,•J 
included a part of the Most Siberian Krai. 













Yaroslavl Oblast (Yaroslavskaya Oblast) 


Area: 24,350 so. miles 
Pop,: 2,271,307 

Adn. c.: Yaroslavl, (Pop,: 298,065) 


Est, 11 Ilarch 1936. 
Ivanovo Oblast (est. 


Was formed out of the northern half of the 
14 January 1929). 


origina 


AUTONOMOUS REPUBLICS 


Bashkir ASGR (Bashkirskeya ASSR) 

Area: 54,250 sc. miles 
Pop.: 3,144,713 

Capital: Ufa. '(Pop.: 245,835). 

Est. 23 Parch 1919. 


Buryat-? longol AS JR (Buryat-: ongolsk ?ya AS SR) 

Area; 127,950 sq. miles 
Pop,: 542,170 

Capital: Ulan-Ude (Fop.: 129,417) 


Esi 


u. 30 Pay 1923, and subordinated directly to the RSFSR. Included 
in the East Siberian Krai formed in 1930 when the Siberian Krai was 
divided. On 5 December 1936, the Buryat-1longol ASSR v/as again put 
directly under the RSFSR and the East Siberian Krai made .an oblast. 
When the East Siberian Oblast mas divided into the Chiba and Irkutsk 


Oblasts (26 September 1957) two exclaves of the Buryat-I : ongol ASSR 
one went of Lake Baikal and one east of the lake, mere transferred 
the new oblasts, the one to the './est becoming the Ust-Orda Burvat- 
Pongol N.O. of the Irkutsk Oblast and the one to the east being 
included in the Chita Oblast as the .bginskoyc Buryat-Pongol N.O. 


Chechen -Ingush AS SR (Chocheno-Ingus hskaya ASSR) 

Area: 3,050 sq. miles 
Pop.: 397,408 

Capital: Grozny (Fop,: 172,408) 


Est. 15 December 


936 when the former Chechcn-Invush A.C., which xses- 

✓ 

tablished 15 JanucJ’y 1954 as part of the North Caucasian Krai, was 
promoted to ASSR and subordinated directly to the RSFSR. The former 
Chechen-Ingush A.O. v/as formed by combining the Chechen A.O. (est. 

30 Nov 1922) and the Ingush A. 0.' (est. 7 July 1924) which were parts 
of the original North Caucasian Krai. 


Chuvash ASSR (Chuvashskaya ASSR) 


Area: 6,900'sq. miles 
Pop.: 1,077,614 

Capital: Cheboksary. 


Est. as A.O. in the RSFSR on 24 June 1920; changed to an ASSR 21 April 
1925, remaining in the RSFSR. Placed under Nizhcgorod Krai (later 
Gorki Krai) until 5 December 1936 when it v/as again put directly under 
the RSFSR. 









Crimean AS SI? (Krymskaya AS SR) 


Area: 10,050 sq. miles 

Pop.: 1,126,324 

Capital: Simferopol. (Pop.: 142,078) 


Est. 18 October 1921. On 7 January 1941 
Koza was transferred from Krasnodar Krai 


the island of Srednyaya 
to the Crimean AS SI:. 


Dagestan ASSR (Dagestanskaya A3SR) 


Area.: 13,500 sq. miles 

Pop.: 950,527 

Capital: Makhach-Kala. (Pop.: 86,847) 


Est. 20 January i921. Vlas included in North 
13 February 19^4) until 5- December 1935. 


Caucasian 


Krai (est. 


/Hour,tain AS 3V' (Gorskaya 


.» C CO ',7 
■si.lt> kJJ l J / 


Area: 
Pop. : 


(?) 

(?) 


Adm. c.: Vladikavkaz (subsenuently renamed Ordzhonikidze). 


Est. 20 January 1921. 
Nalchik end Sunzhensk 
A.0. which was subordi 


On 1 September 1921 a portion (parts of the 
Okrugs) vras detached to form the Kabardinian 
nai ctly to t ie RSFSR. On’12 January 1922 


the section peopled by the Karachayev tribe was detached to form 
Karachayev (dierkess) A.O., also directly under the RSFSR. Four 


the 

days 


later (16 January 1922) another section, inhabited predominantly by 


Balk&rians, was detached and added to 
renamed the Kabardino-Balkarian a.0. 
o + "' the Gorskaya • AS SR inhabited by tne 


the Kabardinian A.O. which was 
On 30 November 1922 the cart 
Chechens was detached to form 


the Chechen A.O. directly subordinated 
the North Osetian A.O., the Ingush A.O. 
and the city of Vladikavkaz (which was 
were organized out of the remainder of 


to die RSFSR. On 7 July 1924 
, tne Sunzhensk Autonomous Okrug, 
given vlv status of an okrug), 
tho Gorskaya ASSR which ceased 


to exist as oG this date. 


Kabardino-Balkarian A S S R 


(K ab a r di no - B u 1 k 


rsk Aye- 



Area: 4,750 sq. miles 

Pop.: 359,236 


Capital: Nalchik. 




Est .'as'-the Kabardinian A.O. under She. RS-FSR on 1 September 1921. 
organized as the Kabardino-Balkarian A.O. 16 January 1922. 7 as placed 

in the North Caucasian Krai on its establishment on 13 February 1924. 
Made" an AS'SR on 5 December 1936, and included directly in RSFSR. 


Kalmyk AS SR (Kalmytssk y a AS3R) 

Area: 28,650 sq. miles 

Pop.: 220,723 

Adm. c.: Elista (for awhile Astrakhan was the Vdm. c.) 












23 


Est. 25 November 1920 as A.O. Included in Lover Volga 
and thereafter in Stalingrad Krai until 5 December 193G 
to ASSR and subordinated directly to RSFSR. 

V 


Krai 1928-1934 , 
when promoted 


/Karelian ASSR (Karelska/a ASSR) / 

Area: 56,700 sq. miles 

Pop.: 469,145 

Adm. c.: Petrozavodsk (Pop.: 69,700) 


Est.: 25 July 1923. Formerly the Karelian Workers' Commune (est. 4 
August 1920). The Kandalaksha Raion of the Karelian ASSR was transferred 
to Murmansk Oblast on 29 May 1938. On 31 March 1940, the ASSR was 
merged with most of the territory acquired from Finland to form the 
Karelo-Finnish SSR. The boundary between the RSFSR and the Karelo- 


Finnish SSR was .fixed on 8 August 1940. 


/Kirgiz ASSR (Kirgi 


skaya ASSR)/ 


Area: 
Pop.: 


(?) 

(?) 


Est. 26 August 1920. Renamed K&z.JhASSR 15 June 1925. On 5 December 
1936 became Kazak SSR. 


Komi ASSR (Komi ASSP) 

Area: 144,750 sq. miles 

Pop.: 318,969 

Capital: Syktyvkar. 

Est. 5 December 1936. Originally organized as Zyrynn A.O. 22 August 
1921. Became part of the Northern Krai when the latter was formed in 
1929. 

The Komi ASSR includes: 

Pechora Okrug (Pechorski Okrug) 

Area: 69,750 sq. miles 

Pop.: (?) 

Adm. c. : Ust-Nsa' 

Est. 25 February 1936. 


Mari ASSR (Mariiskaya ASSR) 


Area: 9,000 sq. miles 

Pop.: 579,466 

Capital: Ioehkar-Oln. 

Est. as an ASSR on 5 December 1936. Previously on A.O. (est. 4 Novem¬ 
ber 1920) which subsequently was included in the K.izhegorod Krai 
(est. 14 January 1929). Wnnn the Kirov Krai was separated from Gorki 
(Nizhegorod) Kr.i on 7 December 1934, the Mari A.O. remained in tho 
Gorki Krai. 








24 


Mordvi n AS3R (Mordovskaya ASSR) 

Area: 9,850 sq. mil'es 

Fop.: 1,188,598 

Capital: Saransk 

Est. as aSSR 10 December 1954. Previously an a.O. (cst. 10'January 
1930) included in the Middle Voigt'. (Kuibyshev) Krai, on 9 December 
1936 it was subordinated directly to the RSFSR, Kuibyshev Kr i b com¬ 
ing an oblast. On 16 November 1940, a small area of tie Mordvin ASSR 
was added to .Penza Oblast and on 26 April 1840, a small ar< a s 
transferred from the Penza Oblast to the- Mordvin ASSR. 


/Volga German ASSR (Nemtsov Povolzhy ASSR) / 


Area: 10,900 sq. miles 
Pop.: 605,542 

Capital: EngoIs. (Po p.: 


79 


\ 

/ 


19; 




P r c. vi o u s 1 v c 11c d the vTo rk . r s 
o') 


(est. 19 October 1913). Included in Lower 


Est. as .lSSR 10 December 
Commune of Vol 0 a G ;rmans 
Volga Krai when latter est. in 1928. Fhon the Lower Volga Krai was 
divided 10' January 1934, the Volga German .SSR res included -in the 
now Saratov Krai. On 5 Decomb r 1936, the Volf ; German ASSP was 
placed directly under thm RSFSR. In September 1941, th Volga G-. rain 


ASSR was abolished. Fifteen of its re ions were 
Oblast and seven rr.ions to Stalingrad Oblast. 


awarded to Saratov 


North Osetian aSSR (Sovoro-Osetiriska }/■:. ASSR/) 

Area: 2 .,400 sq, miles 

Pop.: 378,385 

Capital: Ordzhonikidze (Pop.: 127,172) 

Est. as rai IS SR 5 December 1930, Formerly an A.0. 
included in the North Caucasian Krai. 


. e o u. 


7 July 1924) 


Tat a r AS SR (Tatars*:; • ya AS SR) 

Area: 25,900 sq. miles 

Pop.: 2,919,423 

Capital: Kazan. (Pop.: 401,665) 

Est. 27 May 1920. On 7 October 1940 a small area was transferred 
from the Tatar ASSR to Kuibyshev Oblast. 


Udmurt A SSR (Udmurtskaya ASSR) 

Area: 15,000 sq. miles 

Pop.: 1,220,007 


Capital: Izhevsk (Poo.: 175,740) 


Est. as an ASSR 28 December 1934. Originally organized 
A.0., 4 November 1920, it was subsequently included in 
(later C-orki) Krai which was organized 14 January 1929. 


as the Votyak 
the Nizhegorod 
When the 








25 


Gorki Krai was divided, 7 Do comber 193 /! , the Yoty k (by then called 
the Udmurt) A.O. was included in the new T 'irov Krai. On 5 December 
1936 the Udmurt ASSR was taken out of the Kirov Krai and subordinated 
directly to the RSFSR, Kirov Krai becoming Kirov Oblast. 

Yakut ASS R (Yakutskaya ASSR) 

Area: 1,170,250 sq. miles 

Pop.: 400,544 

Capital: Yakutsk. 

Est. 27 Anril 1922. 

i. 

The Yakut ASSR includes: 

Aldan Okrug (Aldanski Okrug) 

Area: 130,000 sq. miles 

Pop - : (?) 

A dm. c. Aldan (former : am : ITeza: ictny) . 

Est. 8 April 1939. 




26 


UKRAIN I AN SOV IE T SO0 1 ALTS' 71 R EPUBLIC — Ukrainian 2SR 
(Ukrainskaya SSRj 

* • • • r 

* • • J. 

Area: 221,600 sq. nil jr (as of December 1940) 

Pop,: 40,200,200 (as of December 1940) 

Capital: Kiev (until 1934, Kharkov) (Pop.: 846,293) 

« * 

Various declarations of independence: 27 Do comb., r 1917, "larch 1910, 

23 November 1918 and finally in December 1919. Incorporated into UP31 
30 December 1922. 

The early division into gubernias, uyezds and volosts (. ft r 7 Kerch 
1923 gubernias, okrugs and ruions) was changed on 1 August 1923 to a three- 
stage division: okrug, raion and village (and/or city) soviet. On 
15 September 1930 the okrugs werc abolished and th, ruions (434 in num¬ 
ber) were placed in direct subordination, bo the ccn + r.J Ukrainian govern¬ 
ment. Also 18 cities "ere placed under the immodiu' ,• control of the 
central government. After its establishment cn 12 October 1924, the 
Moldavian ASSR had remained an autonomous unit. 


In 1932 the radons v/erc grouped into seven oblasts (? r haricov, 1 iov. 


'kov, J" 

Vinnitsa, Dnepropetrovsk, Odessa, Don ts and Chernigov). Subseoucntly 
the number was incr as d by dividing th-.. original oblasts. On 4 December 
1939 the Ukrainian Republic mas enlarged by the addition of former Polish 
territory which was organized into six new oblasts - 


After the annexation of Bessarabia the Moldavian AS CP. was se/ered 
from the Ukraine and together with the major part of Bessarabia was 
organized as the Moldavian SSI: on 2 August 15 A0. The rest of Acs serai, ia 
and northern Bukovina (also ceded by Rumania) were added directly to the 
Ukrainian 3SR on 2 August 1940 and org nized into two additional oblasts. 
The total result of these changes was an increase of 12,100 sq. mi. to 
the Ukraine, and an increase of 9,240,000 in population. 


/Akkerman Oblast (Akkermanskaya Oblast) / 

Area: (?) 

Pop.: (?) 

Adm. c.: Akkerman (Pop.: 19 ; 000, as of December 1940) 

Est. August or September 194-0. Composed of the ,'kkerm n and Izrmhl 
districts of Bessarabia. On 7 December 1940 its adm. c. was ch: nged 
to Izmail and its n me changed to Izmail Oblast, 


Chernigov Oblast (Chernigovskaya Oblast) 

Area: 16,750 sc. miles 

Pop.: 2,965,300 (as of 1 J nu. ry 1933) 

Adm, c.: Chernigov (Pop.: 67,356) 

Est. 7 October 1932. Probably formed from certain ruions of Kharkov 
and Kiev Oblasts which were-ere .ted earlier in the year. Seven..1 
raions were transferred from Chernigov Oblast to the Sumy Oblast 
when the later was created on 10 January 1939. 









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C hernov i tsy Oblast (Chernovitskaya Oblast) 

Area.: (?) 

Fop.: (?) 

Ada. c.: Chernovitsy (pop.: 110-000, as of December 1940) 

Est. August or September 1940. Composed of the northern n art of 
Bukovina, and the Nhotin district of Bessarabia. 


Dnepropetrovsk Ob last (Dnepropetrovskaya Oblast) 

Area: 12,350 so. miles 

Pop,: 3,872,600 (as of 1 January 1933) 

«* 

Adm. c.: Dnepropetrovsk (Pop,: 500,662) 


Est. (originally) 27 February 1932. With the ere .tion of Donets 
Oblast on 17 July 1932, 5 r^ions .•'ere transferred from Dnepropetrovsk 
Oblast to the Donets Oblast, parts of Dnepropetrovsk Obi ast -were 
trisen to form the Zaporozhye Oblast on 10 J nu .ry 1939. 


/Donets Oblast (Donetsk, .ys. Oblast) / 

Area: 20,200 sq. miles (as of 1 Septemoer 1935) 

Pop.: 4,074,500 (as of 1 Jatiu ry 1933) 

Adm, c.: St'.lino (pop.: 462>395) (Former adm. c.: Artemovck) 


Est. 17 July 1932. Included 17 indus+ri 1 units formerly directly 
subordin .ted to the Ukr ininn SSR plus 13 rr.ions from Kharkov Obi: st 
and 5 raions from Dnepronetrovsk Oblast. Abolished 5 June 1938 and 
its territory divided between Stalino and Voroshilovgrad Oblasts. 


The Donets Oblast included: 

/Starobelsk Okrug (Starobelski Okrug) / 

(as of 1 September 1935) 
J nu ry 1933) 


Absorbed entirely into Voroshilovgrad 
Oblast, 3 June 1938, losing its identity ,.s an okrug. 


Area: 


5,600 sq* mix 

Pop. : 

5 

31,100 (as of 

Adm. 

c. : 

Starohelsk 

Est. 

17 

November 1935 


Drogobych Obiast 


(Dro otyef skaya 

X O *J O 


Oolast) 


Ares.: 4,500 sq. miles 

Pop.: (?) 

Adm. c.: Drogobych (Pop.: 32,000, rs of December 1940) 

Est. 4 December 1939. Part of territory taken from Poland. (Detail 
in Vedomosti Verkhovnogo Soveta, 3SSR, 20 December 1929, p. 3). 











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Izmail Oblast (Izmailskayn Oblast) 

Areas (?) 

Pop.: (?) 

Adm. c.s Izmail (Pop.: 26,000, as of December 1940) 

Est. August or September 1940 is the jikkerman Obi .st. Ilf.me c,i;ngcd 
to Izmail on 7 December 1940. 


Kumenets-Podolsk Oblast (Kumenets-Podolskaya Oblast) 

Area: 7,900 sq. miles 

Pop.: (?) 

A dm. c.s Proskurov 


Est. 22 September 1937. Formerly an Okrug in Vinnitsc Oblast, 
administrative center was transferred from Kamenets-Pcdolsk to 
on 12 May 1941. 


The 

Proskurov 


Kharkov 0bl r st (Kharkov skaya Oblast) 


Area: 11,700 sq. miles 

Pop.: 6,117,400 (as of ] January 1933) 

Adm. c.: Kh.arkov (Pop c ; 832,432) 

Est. (originally) 27 February 1932. Pith the ere .tion of Donets Oblast 
on 17 July 1932, 13 raions acre transferred to it from. Kharkov Oblast. 

A part of Kharkov Oblast was taken to form Poltava Oblast 22 September 
1937. Several raions varc ti .nsferred from Kh .rkov Oblast to Sumy 
Oblast when the latter was ere- ted on 10 Jarm ry 1939. 


Kiev Oblast (Kievskuyn Oblast) 


Area 
Pop. 

Adm. 

Est. 
Ki ev 
were 
1939 


15,400 sq. miles 

6,127,700 (as of 1 January 1933) 
c.: Kiev (Pop*: 846,293) 


(originally) 27 February 
Oblast to form Zhitomir 0 
transferred to Kirovogr d 


1932. Zhitomir Okrug split off 
last, 22 September 1937, Some 
Obi st on its cstaolishme-nt 10 


from 

raions 

January 


The Kiev Oblast included: 

/Karosten Okrug (Forost^nski Okrug) 

Area: 4,100 so. miles (as of 1 September 1935) 

. Pop.: 455,800 (as of 1 January 1933) 

Adm. c.: Koroston 

Est. 1 April 1935. abolished 22 September 1937. 
/Novogrrd-V olynia Okrug (llovograd-Volynski Okrug) / 
Adm. c. Novograd-Volynski 

Est. 1 April 1935. Abolished 22 September 1937. 











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/Zhitomir Okrug (Zhitomirski Okrug )J 

Area: 1,800 sq. miles (as of 1 September 1035) 

Pop.: 283,900 (as of 1 January 1933) 

Adm. c.: Zhitomir (Pop.: 95,090) 

Est. 29 April 1936. Became r.n Oblast, 22 Septom.b r 1037. 

Kirovograd Oblast (Kir o vogradskaya Oblast) 

Area:' 9,200 sq. miles 
Pop.: (?) 

Adm. c.: Kirovograd (Pop.: 100,331) 

Est. 10 January 1939. formed 3 rem o,,rts or th- 1 ikolayev, Odessa, 
Kiev and Poltava Oblasts. 


Lvov Oblast 


(Lvovskay: Obiast) 


Area: 5,150 s°. miles 

Pop.: (?) 

Adm. c.: Lvov (pep.: 310,000, as of D c. mb,r 1940) 


Est, 4 De comb or 1939. P „rt o p t rritory 

t J 

in Vedomosti V:rkhovnogo Soveta 3SSR, 20 


t .k n fro m Pol'- ::i d. (Details 

D. c„mt..;r 1939, p. 3 A 

f 


ITikol ayov Oblast (Nikol..yevskaye Oblast) 

Area: 13,100 sq. raij.es 

Pop.: (?) 


Adm. c.: Nikolayev (Pop, 


167,10 


3) 


Est. (originally) 22 September 1937. 
Oblast. Parts of Likol ye^ r Oblast ear 
and Zaporozhye Oblasts when those w^rc 

i. v 


•^orm^d from part of Odessa 
o transferred to Kirovograd 
created on 10 January 1939. 


Odessa 0b 


(Od: 


fc a' 


e- 


blast) 


Area: 10,400 so. miles 

Pop.: 3,32^,900 (o.s of 1 Jcnu ry 1933) 

Adm. c. : Ode s sa (Poo, : -604,223) 


Est. (originally) 27 February 1932. P .rt split 
Oblast, 22 September 1937. Farts transferred t 
on its establishment 10 January 1939. Some r i 
Moldavian ASSR vrerc transform d to Odessa Obi as 


off to form Nikolayev 
o the Kirovograd Oblast 
ons of.the former 
t on 13 August 1940. 


Poltava Oblast (Poitavsk ya Oblast) 

Area: 13,100 sq. miles 

Pop.: (?) 

Adm. c. Poltava (Pop.: 130,305) 














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Est. 


(originally 22 


September 1037)* Formed from 


Darts 


_ r> 
Ol 


::iv\ 


;<:ov 


Oblast. Gave up Lipovo-Rolinski and Cinevsk 
Oblast and the Novo-Georgiyev and Onufriyev 
Oblast when these oblasts were created on 10 


i raions to the Sumy 
raion.s to Tr irovo b rad 
January 1039. 


Rovno Oblast (Rovenskaya Oblast) 

Area: 7,700 sq. miles 
Pop.: (?) 

Adm. c.: Rovno (Pop.: 40,000, as of December 1940) 

Est. 4 December 1939. Part of territory taken from Poland. (details 
in Vedcmosti Verkhovnogo Soveta SSSR, 20 December 1939, p. 3.) 


Stalino Oblast (Stalinskava Oblast) 

Area: 9,800 sq. miles 

Pop.: (?) 

Adm. c.: Stalino (Pop,: 462,395) 

Est. 3 June 1938. Formed from parts of former Donets Oblast. 


Stanislav Oblast (Stanislavskaya Oblast) 

Area: 5,-300 sq. miles 

Pop.: (?) 

Adm. c.: Stanislav (poo.: 60,000, as of December 1940) 


Est. 4 December 1939. 'art of territory 
in Vedomosti Verkhovnogo So^ebe SSSR, 20 


aken from Poland. (Details 
December 1939, p. 3). 


Sumy Oblast (Sumskaya Oblast) 

Area: 9,350 sq. miles 
Pop.: (?) 

Adm. c.: Sumy (Pop,: 63,863) 


Est. 10 January 1939, 
Poltava Obit sts. 


Formed from carts of Knarkov, 


Chernigov and 


T arnopol Obl ast (T irnopolskaya Oblast) 

Area: 5.-050 sq. miles 

Pop.: (?) 

Adm. c.: Tarnopol (Pop.: 33,000, as of December 1940) 


Est. 4 December 1959. Part territory taken from Poland, 
in Vedomosti Verkho vnogo Soveta SSSR, 20 December 1939, p.3) 


(Details 














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Vinnitsa Oblast (Vinnitskaya Gblast) 

Area: 10.400 sq. miles 

Pop.: 4,303,500 (as oi‘ 1 January 1933) 

Adm. c.: Vinnitsa (Pop.: 92,863) 

Est. 27 February 1932. The Kamenets-Podolsk Okrug v/as detached from 
Vinnitsa Oblast on 22 September 1937 and became an Oblast. 

The Vinnitsa Oblast included: 

/Kamenets -Podolsk Okrug (Kamenets-Podolski Okrug) / 

Area: 1,300 sq. miles (as of 1 September 1935) 

Pop.: 506,100 (as of 1 January 1953) 

Adm. c.: Kamenets-Podolsk 


Est. 1 April 1935. Became an Oblast, 22 September 1937. 

/Mogi 1 ev-Podo 1 sic Okrug (Mogilev-Podolski Okrug) / 

Area: 1,-300 so, miles fes of 1 September 1935) 

Pop.: 355,200 ( as of 1 January 1933; 

Adm. c.: iio gi 1 ev- Po do 1 sk 

Est. 1 April 1935. Abo1is led 22 September 1937. 

Proskurov Okrug (proskurovski Okrug )_/* 

Area: 1,800 sq. miles (as of 1 September 1935) 

Pop.: 541,000 (os of 1 January 1933) 

Adm. c.: Proskurov 

Est. 1 .April 1933. Abolished 22 September 1937. 

/Shepet ovk a Okrug (Shepetovski Okrug )J 

Area: 2,500 so. miles (as of 1 September 1935) 

Pop.: 527,600 (as of 1 January 1933) 

Adm. c. Shepetovk , 


Est. 1 April 1935. Abolished 


o 9 

Lj Cj 


September 1337 


Volyni a Oblast (Volynskaya Oblast) 

Area: 7,250 sq. ..dies 

Pop.: (?) 

Adm. c.: Lutsk (Pop.: 35,000, as of December 1940) 

Est. 4 December 1939. Part of territory taken from Poland. (Details 
in Vedomosti Verkhovno go Sove t a SSSP , 20 December 1939, p. 3). 

Voroshilovgrad Oblast (Voros;iilovgradskaya Oblast) 


Area: 
Pop. : 


10,400 sq. miles 

(?) 















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Adni, c.: Voroshilovgrad (pop.: .213,007) 

Est. 3 June 1938. Formed from parts of former Donets Oblast. 

Za porozhye Ob last (Zaporozhskaya Oblast) 

Area: 12,350 sq. miles 
Pop.: (?) 

Adm. c.: Zaporozhye (Pop.: 289,188) 

Est. 10 January 1939. Formed from parts of the Dnepropetrovsk nd 
ilikolayev Oblasts. 


Zhi tomir Oblast (Zhitomirskaya Oblast) 

Area: 11,350 sq. miles 

Pop.: (?) 

Adm. c.: Zhitomir (Pop.: 95,090; 

Est. 22 September 1937. Formerly an Okrug in Kiev Oblast. 

i. v O 


/M oldavian ASS R (Moldavskaya ASSR) / 

Area: 3^250 sq-, miles 

Pop.: 615,500 ( es Q f x January 1933) 

Adm. c.: Tiraspol 


Est. 12 October 1924. Formed 


Do; 


;t 


Of 


Po do 1 sk Oubo mi ya, 
to form the Moldavian SSP, 2 August 1940. 
ferred (13 August 1940) to Odes sc. Oblast. 


from P-. rts of Odessa. Guborniya and 
: was united with parts of Bessarabia 


'ome r... ior.s y' ere tr..n r: - 






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BELORUSSIAN (WHITE RUSSIAN SSR) SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLIC 

(Belorusskaya SSR — BSSR) 


Area: 88,150 sq. milos (as of December 1940) 

Pop.: 10,400,000 (as of December 1940) 

Capital: Minsk (Pop.: 238,772) 

Est. 1 January 1919. Incorporated into USSR, 30 December 1922. 

In June 1924 the Republic was divided into okrugs and raions. The 
number of okrugs was reduced from 10 in 1925 to 8 in 1929, and on 
23 June 1930 all okrugs were abolished. The raions then remained directly 
subordinated to the Belorussian Central Executive Committee until 17 
July 1935 when four okrugs were again created (Lepel*. 2,150 sq. miles; 
Mozyr: 6,100 sq. miles; Polotsk^ 2,800 sq. miles; Slutsk: 2,770 
sq. miles).* These remained intact until 15 January 19<38, when the 
division into oblasts was adopted. The Belorussian SSR was enlarged 
by the addition of former Polish territory on 4 December 1939, the 
newly acquired territory being organized'into 5 obl&sti. The total in¬ 
crease in territory was 41,700 sq. miles, and the population acquire'd 
Numbered almost five million. The'boundary with the Lithuanian SSR was 
fixed on 6 November 1940 (for details 'see Vodomosti Vorkhovnogo Soveta 
SSSR, 13 November 1940, p. 4.) 


Baranovichi Oblast (Baranovichskaya Oblast) 

Area: 9,100 sq. miles 

Pop.: (?) 

Adm. c.: Baranovichi 

Est. 4 December 1939. Part of territory token from Poland. Some 
parts of Baranovichi Oblast were removed and joined to the Lithuanian 
SSR in 1940. 


Belostok Oblast (Belostckskaya Oblast) 

Area: 3,200 sq. miles 

Pop.: (?) 

Adm. c.: Belostok (Pop.: 90,000, as of December 1940). 
Est. 4 December 1939. Part of territory taken from Poland. 


Brest O blast (Brestskr.ya Oblast) 

Area: 6,650 sq. miles 

Pop.: (?) 

Adm. c.: Brest (Pop.: 50,000, as of December 1940) 

Est. 4 December 1939. Part of territory taken from Poland. 

Gomel Oblast (Gomelskaya Oblast) 

Area: C,300 sq. miles 

Pop.: (?) 


* Areas as of 1 ••larch ] 93 7 












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Adm. c.: Gomel (Pop.: 144,169) 

* 

Est. 15 January ,1938'. 

* • ( t * • * 

Minsk Obl ast (Minskaya Oblast) 

*\ • * 

Area: 11,000 sq. miles 

Pop.: (?) .. 

Adm. c.: Minsk' (pop.: 238,772) 

Est. 15 January 1938. 

► o « * ' 

' 

Mogilev Oblast (Mogilevskaya Oblast) 

Area: 11,000 sq. miles 
Pop.: ' (7) ‘ ‘ 

; ■ > , . . 1 * . " * 4 1 4 

‘Adm.-c .r* 1 Mogilev (Pop.: 99,440) 

Est. 15 January 1938. 

Pinsk Oblast (Pinskaya Oblast) 

Area: 6,200 sq. miles 
Pop.: (?) 

Adm. c.: Pinsk (Pop.: 30,000 as of December 1940) 

Est. 4 December 1939. Part of territory taken from Poland. 

Polesyc Oblast (polesskaya Oblast) 

Area: 9,900 sq. miles 
Pop.: (?) 

• 4 * #, • 

Adm. c.: Mozyr 
Est. 15 January 1938. 

Vileika Oblast (Viloiskaya Obiast) 

Area: 8,500 sq. miles ‘ 

Pop.: (?) 

* • 

Adm. c.: Vileika 

Est. 4 December 1939. Part of territory taken from Poland. Some 
parts of Vileika Oblast were removed and joined to the Lithuanian 
SSR in 1940. 

Vitebsk Oblast (Vitebskaya Oblast) 

Area: 10,700 sq. miles 

Pop.: (?) 

Adm. c.: Vitebsk (pop.: 167,424) 

Est. 15 January 1938. 











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/TRANS-CAUCASIAN SOVIET FEDERA T ED SOCIALIST REPUBLIC/ 

/jTakavkn z skaya’ SFSR/ 

Area- 71,650 sq. miles (as of 1 September 1935) 

Pop.: 7,110,800 (as of 1 January 1933) 

Capital: Tbilisi (Pop.: 519,175)” 

Est. 12 March 1922. Joined the USSR 30 December 1922. Abolished 5 
December 1936. Included the Armenian SSR, the Azerbaidzhan SSR, and 
the Georgian SSR (including the Abkhaz SSR united with the Georgian 
SSR by treaty). 


ARMENIAN SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLIC 
(Armyanskaya SSR) 

Area: 11,550 sq. miles 
Pop.: 1,281,599 

Capital: Yerevan (Erivan) (Pop.: 200,031) 

Est. 29 November 1920. Joined the Trans-Caucasian SFSR 12 March 1922 
When the Trans-Caucasian SFSR, which joined the USSR on 30 - December 
1922, was broken up into its component parts on 5 December 1936, 
Armenia became an immediate member of the"USSR as a Union Republic. 

. '■ r. • * * ’ • ' # ' 

AZERBAIDZHAN SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLIC 
(Azerbaidzhanskaya SSR) 

Area: 33,000 so. miles 

Pop.: 3,209,727 

Capital: Baku (pop.: 809,300) 

Est. 23 April 1920. Joined the Trans-Caucasian SFSR on 12 March 1922 
When the Trans-Caucasian SFSR, which joined the USSR on 30 December 
1922, was broken up into its component parts on 5 December 1936, 
Azerbaidzhan became an immediate member of the USSR as a Union 
Republic. 

The Azerbaidzhan SSR includes: 

Nakhichevan ASSR (Nakhichevanskaya ASSR) 

. Area: 1*950 sq. miles 

Pop.: 117,000 (as of‘1 January 1933) 

Capitalr Nakhichevan 


Est. in 1925. 

Nagorno-Karabakh A.O . (Nagorno-Karabakhdcaya A.0.) 

Area: 1,700 sq. miles 

Pop.: 153,900 (as of 1 January 1933) 

Adm. c.: Stepanakert 


Est. 6 June 1923. 












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' ••'••. GEORGIAN SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLIC ' ' -,• • • . 

(Gruzinskaya SSR) 

\ ' • • • • 

Area: 26,750 sq, miles 

Fbp.: 3,542,289 * *• * ‘ : ‘ v 

Capital: 'Tbilisi (Pop.: 519,175) 

Est. 25 February 1921. Joined the Trans-Caucasian SFSR (12-IIarch. 1922), 
’When the Trans-Caucasian SFSR, which joined the USSR on 30 December 
1922, was broken up into its'component parts on 5 December 1936 the 
Georgian SSR became an immediate member of the USSR as a Union Republic. 

The Georgian SSR includes: 

Abkhazian'A S SR (Abkhazskaya ASSP.) 

Area; 3,350 sq. miles 

Pop.: 259,100 (as of 1 January 1933) 

Capital: Sukhumi 

Est. v 3 January 1921, as an SSR. Was-joined to the Georgian SSR 
by treaty and, by virtue of its union with Georgia, was a member 
of the Trans-Caucasian SFSR. Later (sometime between 1932 and 
1935) Abkhazia was changed to an ASSR and included in the 
Georgian SSR. 

Adzhar ASSR (Adzharskaya ASSR) 

Area: 1,100 sq. miles 

Pop.: 153,800 (as of 1 January 1933) 

Capital: Batumi (pop.: 70,807) 

Est. 16 June 1921 • ♦ • 

South Osetian A.0. (Yugo-Osetinskaya A.O.) 

Area: 1,400 sq. miles 

Pop.: 95,300 (as of 1 January 1933) 

Adm. c.: Stalinir 

Est. 23 April 1922. 


No te on the Formation of Soviet Republics 
in Central Asia 


/ 

Under the Tsarist government the territory now occupied by the Soviet 
Republics of Central Asia was organized rather loosely. The steppe region 
in the north, which today forms the larger part of the Kazakh SSR, was 
organized in four oblasts, Uralsk, Turgai, Akmolinsk and Semipalatinsk, 
the last two forming the Government-General (general-gubernatorstv) of 
the Steppes. The aia.a to the south, commonly referred to as Turkestan 
included fi'ye .oblasts, Trans-Caspia, Syr-Darya, Samarkand, and Fergana 
which were grouped together in the Government-General of ‘Turliest;.n, and 
the two vassal states, the Emirate of Bukhara and the Khanate of Khiva. 


During and immediately after the Civil War Soviet republics of 
various types wore established. On 26 August 1920 the Kirgiz ASSR was 
formed as part of the RSFSR; it included most of the area of the four 








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imperial steppe oblasts. On 14 September 1920 after a local revolution, 
the former Emirate of Bukhara was proclaimed the Bukhara- Peoples’ Soviet 
Republic, ostensibly independent. In April of that year a similar revolt 
in the Khanate of Khiva had led to the establishment of the- nominally 
independent Khorezm Peoples’ Soviet Republic. The rest of Central Asia, 
roughly the former Government General of Turkestan, was organized as the 
Turkestan ASSR of the RSFSR on 12 October 1922. 

In October 1923 the Khorezm Peoples’ Soviet Republic-'was proclaimed 
the Khorezm Soviet Socialist Republic and on 19 September 1924 the Bukhara 
Peoples’ Soviet Republic became the Bukhara Soviet Socialist Republic, 
both having a "treaty” relationship to the RSFSR. This prepared the way 
for the territorial reshuffling which took place toward the end of 1924, 
which resulted in the abolition of the Turkestan ASSR, the Bukhara SSR and 
and the Khiva SSR and the formation of two new SSR's, the Uzbek SSR 
rind the Turkmen SSR. The now republics were promptly admitted to the 
USSR as full Union Republics. 


KAZAKH SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLIC 
(Kazakhskaya SSR) 

Area: 1,055,850 sq. miles 

Pop . : 6,145,937 

Capital: Alma-Ata (Pop.: 230,500) 

Est. 5 December 1936 when the Kazak ASSR of the RSFSR was promoted to 
the rank of Union Republic and the spelling changed. Until 15 June 
1925 the Kazak ASSR was called the Kirgiz^ASSR which was established # 
26 August 1920 and enlarged in 1924 by "the addition of the northern 
parts of the Trans-Caspian, Syr-Darya and Semirechensk Oblasts, when, 
the Turkestan ASSR was abolished. (See note on the'Formation of Soviet 
Republics in Central Asia). 

The Kazakh SSR includes the following oblasts: 

Akmolinsk Oblast (/Hanoiinskaya Oblast) 

Area: 58,650 sq. miles 

• ♦ 4 

Adm. c.: Akmolinsk 

Est. 14 October 1959. Formed from parts of Karaganda and North 
Kazakhstan Oblasts. 

Akty ubinsk Oblast (Aktyubinskaya Oblast) ’ . A. 

Area: 110,900 sq. miles 

Adm. c.: Aktyubinsk 

Est. 10 March 1932. Come parts of the Stepny raion were trans¬ 
ferred to Chkalov Oblast, RSFSR, in early summer, 1940. 

Al ma-Ata Oblast (Alma-Atinskaya Oblast) 

Area: 82,350 sq. miles 

Adm. c•: Alma-Ata (Pop -: 230,500) 


Est. (originally) 10 March 1932. 







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On 14 October 1939 parts were taken from the Alma-Ata and East XazaKhstai} 
Oblasts to form the Semipalatinsk Oblast, and from the Alma-Ata Oblast an 
the South Kazakhstan-Oblast to form the Dzhambul Oblast. 

* . i 

' ' 1 
it;.'” ' • ■ 

"Dzhambul*- Oblast (Dzhambulskaya Oblast) 

•: Area: 65,700 sq. miles 

h 

Adm. c.: Dzhambul (pop.: 62,723) 


Est, 14 October 1939. Formed from parts of Alma-Ata And South 
Kazakhstan Oblasts, 


East Kazakhstan Oblast - 


(Vosto chno-Xa z akhstan skaya Oblast) 


Area: 38,450 sq. miles 

Adm. c.: Ust-Kamenogorsk (until 14 October 1939 tne adm. c, was 
Semipalatinsk). 


Est. (originally}10 March 1932. 

the western 

On 14 October 1939/part of the East Kazakhstan Oblast (including 
its adm. c. Semipalatinsk) was detached, together with the northern 
part of the Alma-Ata Oblast, to form the new Semipalatinsk 

Oblast. 


Guryev Oblast (Guryevskaya Oblast) 


Area; 95,600 sq. miles 


Adm. c.: Guryev 

Est. 15 January 1938. Formerly an Okrug. 

/ Guryev Okrug (Guryevski Okrug)_/ 

Area: 85,300 sq. miles (as of 1 September 1935) 


Adm. c.: Guryev 

Est. 1 July 1933. Became an oblast 15 January 1938. 

Karaganda Oblast (Karagandinskaya Oblast) 

Area: 164,800 sq. miles 

Adm. c.: Karaganda (pop.: 165,937) 

Est. (originally) 10 March 1932. On 14 October 1939 northern 
border zone detached, together with southern part of the North 
Kazakhstan Oblast, to form the new Akmolinsk Oblast. 

Kustanai Oblast (Kustanaiskaya Oblast) 

r 

Area: 75,200 so. miles 


Adm. c.: * Kustanai 

Est. 20 July 1936, largely from raions of the : Aktyubinsk oblast, 
of which it had previously been an okrug. Some areas of Troitski 
raion, Chelyabinsk Oblast', RSFSR, were trahsferred bo Kustanai 
Oblast, Kazakh SSR in the .early summer of 1940. 










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Kzyl-O r da Oblast (Kzyl-Ordinslcaya Oblast) 

Area: 69,000 sq. miles 

* 

Adm. c.: Kzyl-Orda 

Est. 15 January 1938, largely from raions of the South Kazakhstan 
Oblast plus one raion of the Aktyubinsk Oblast. 

North Kazakhstan Oblast (Severo-Kazakhstanskaya Oblast) 

Area: 32,400 sq. miles 

Adm. c.: Petropavlovsk (Pop.: 91,678) 

Est. (originally) 20 July 1936, from northern part of Karaganda 
Oblast. On 14 October 1939 surrendered some cities and raions to 
form, with additional territory from the Karaganda Oblast, the 
Akaolinsk Oblast, 

Pavladar Oblast (Pavlodarskaya Oblast) 

• " - - * * j 

Area: 53,950 sq. miles 

Adm. c.: Pa'v 1 odnr 

Est. 15 January 1938, from raions of East Kazakhstan Oblast. 
Semipalatinsk Ob last (Semipalutinskaya Oblast) 

Area: 70,300 sq. miles 

Adm. c.: Semipalatinsk (Pop.: 109,779) 

Est. 14 October 1939. Formed from parts of East Kazakhstan and 
Alma-Ata Oblasts. 

South Kazakhstan Oblast (Yuzhno-Kazakhstanskaya Oblast) 

Area: 64,000 sq. miles 

Adm. c.: Chimkent (Pop.: 74,185) 

Est. (originally) 10 March 1932. On 14 October 1939 it surrendere 
some -territory which, together with territory taken from Alma- 
Ata Oblast, formed the -new Dzhambul Oblast. 

West Kazakhstan Ob last (Zapadno-Kazakhstanskaya Oblast) 

Area: 60,850 sq. miles 

Adm. c.: Uralsk (Pop.; 66,201) 

Est. 10 March 1932. 

KIRGIZ SOVIET SfrCIALISr REPUBLIC 
(Kirgi z skaya SSR) 

Area: 77,850 sq. miles 

Pop.: 1*459,301 

Capital: Frunze (Pop,: 92,659) 

Est. 5 December 1936. Began as the Kara-Kirgiz A.O. which was formed 
in October 1924 when the Turkestan ASSR was dissolved. On 27 May 1925 















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name changed to Kirgiz A.O. Made an ASSR of RSFSR on 1 February 1926. 
Became Union Republic on 5 December 1936 with adoption of Constitution 
of that year. 

* .1 V « — 

The Kirgiz SSR includes: 

Dzhal a l-Abad Oblast (Dzhalal-Abadskaya Oblast) 

Area: 11,750 sq. miles 

i , 

Adm. c.: Dzhalal-Abad 


• Est. 21 November 1939. Formerly tin Okrug. 
/Dzhalal-Abad Okrug (Dzhalal-Abadski Okrug) / 


Adm. c.: Dzhalal-Abad. 

Est. 26 February 1938. Became an oblast, 21 November 1939. 
Frunze Oblas t (Frunzenskaya Oblast) 

Area: 10,000 sq. miles 

Adm. c.: Frunze (Pop.: 92,659) 


Est. 21 November 1939. 

• i 

Issyk-Kul Oblast (issyk-Kulskaya Oblast) 

* 4 

Area: 13,950 so. miles 

Adm. c.: Przhevalsk 

Est. 21 November 1939. Includes territory of the former Okrug 
of the same name plus the Balykchinsk raion. 


/Tssyk -Kul Okrug (issyk-Xulski Okrug)J7 
Adm. c.: Karakol. 

Est. 26-February 1938 v . Abolished 2L November 1939, and its 
territory with the addition of the Balykchinsk raion became an 
oblast of the same name. 

Osh Oblast (Oshskaya Oblast) 


Area: 17,200 sq. miles 


Adm. c. Osh 

Est. 21 November 1939. Formerly an okrug. 

/Osh Okr ug (Osh ski Okrug) ~J 
Adm. c.: Osh 

Est. 26 February 193B. Become, an oblast 21 November 1939. 
Tyan-Sha n Oblast (Tyan-Shari skaya Oblast) 

'Area: 2.1,500 sq. miles 
Adm. c.: Narvn 

v 


Est. 21 November 1939. Formerly an okrug. 












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/fyan-Shan Okrug (Tyan-Shanski Okrug )_/ 


A dm. c.: Naryn. 

Est. 26 February 1938. 3ecame an oblast on 2.1 November 1939. 


TADZHIK SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLIC 
(Tadzhikskaya SSR) 

Area: 54>950 sq.-miles 

Pop.: 1,485,091 

Capital: Stalinabad (Pop.: 32,540) 

Est. as an SSR, 5 Docombor 1929; incorporated into USSR 5 December 1929. 
First established 14 October 1924, as an ASSR in the Uzbek SSR. 

The Tadzhik SSR includes: 

Garm Oblas t (Garmsknya Oblast) 

Area: 7,600 sq'. miles- 


Adm* c.: Garm 

Est. 27 October 1939. Previously organized as an okrug (16 March 
1938). 

Kulyab Oblast (Kulyabskaya Oblast) 

* / 

Area: 4,100 sq. miles 
Adm. c.: Kulyab 

Est. 27 October 1939. Previously organized as an okrug (16 Liard 
1938). 


Leninabad Oblast (Leninabadskava Obiast) 

Area: 8,e00 sq. miles 

Adm. c.: Leninabad 

Est. 27 October 1939. Previously organized as an okrug (16 Marc 
1936) 

Stalinabad Oblast (Stalinabadskaya Oblast) 


Area: 8,900 sq. miles 

Adm. c.: Stalinabad (Pop. 82,540) 

Est. 27 October 1939. 

Gcrno Badak hshan A.O . (Gorno**3..dakh§hanskaya ^.0.) 

Area: 25,800 sq. miles , 

Pop.: 35,700 (as of 1 January 1933) 

Adm. c.: Khorog 

Est. in 1927. In the first half of 1933 it v/r.s enlarged by the 
addition of Vanchski Raion. . .. : 















TURKMEN SOVIET SOCIALIST'REPUBLIC 


(Turkmenskaya SSR) 

• • 

Area: 187,150 sq. miles 

Pop.: 1,253,985 

Capital: Ashkhabad (formerly named Poltoratsk) 

(Pop.: 126,530) 

Est. and incorporated into the USSR 27 October 1924. -Lade up of parts 
of the former Turkestan ASSR and the Bukhara and Khorezm Soviet 
Sooialist Republics. 

i , 

The Turkmen SSR. includes: 

T 

Ashkhabad Oblast (Ashkhabr.dskaya Oblast) 

Area: 57,000 sq. miles 

Adm. c.: Ashkhabad (Pop.: 126,580) 

Est. 21 November 1939. 

Chardzhou Oblast (Chardzhouskaya Oblast) 

Area: 21,250 sq. miles 

Adm. c. Chardzhou (Pop.: 54,739) 

Est, 21 November 1939. Made up principally of former Kerki 
Okrug. 

/Kerki Okrug (Kerkinski Okrug) ~f 

Area: 5,550 sq. miles (as of 1 March 1937) 

Pop.: 104,200- (as of 1 January 1933) 

Adm. c.: Kerki 

Est. 23 February 1933. Abolished 21 November 1939 and absorbed 
into newly created Chardzhou Oblast. 

Kr asno^odsk Ob last (Xrasnovodskaya Oblast) 

Area:' 49,650 sq. miles 

Adm. o.: Krasnovodsk 

Est. 21 November 1939 

M ary Oblast (Maryiskaya (Uervskaya) Oblast) 

Area: 28,100 sq. miles 

Adm. c.: Mary 

Est. 21 November 1939. 

Tashauz Oblast (Tashauzskaya Oblast)- 
Area: 31,150 sq. miles 

% « 

Adm. c.: Tashauz 

0 

v 

Est. 21 November 1939. Contains all of territory of former 
Tashauz Okrug, plus additional territory. 












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/Tashauz Okrug; (Tashauzski Okrug)_/ 

Area: 3,975 sq. miles (as of 1 March 1937) 

Pop.: 200,400 (as of 1 January 1933) 

Adm. c.: Tashauz 

Est. 27 February 1932. Abolished 21 November 1939, and its 
territory, with some other became Tashauz Oblast. 


UZBEK SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLIC 
(Uzbekskaya GSR) 

Area: 158,500 sq. miles 

Pop.: G,282,446 

Capital: Tashkent (Pop.: 585,000) 

Est. and incorporated into USSR 27 October 1924 (final proclamation 
5 December 1924). Formed from parts of the former Turkestan ASSR 
(parts of the Fergana, Syr-Darya and Samarkand oblasts), parts of 
Bukhara SSR and parts of the Khorezm S3R. (See note on formation 
of Soviet Republics, etc). Its original capital was Samarkand (until 
1930). 

• 

The Uzbek SSR includes: 

Kara-K alpa k ASSR (Kara-Kalpakskaya ASSR) 

Area: 79,650 sq. miles 

Pop.: 373,500 (as of 1 January 1933) 

Adm. c.: Nukus (formerly the adm. c. was Turtkul) 

Est. as an A.0. of the Kazak ASSR 11 May 1925. Became an 

ASSR of RSFSR 20 March 1932. Transferred to Uzbek SSR 5 December 

1936. 

Andizhan Oblast (Andizhanskaya Oblast) 

Adm. c.: Andizhan (pop.: 83,691) 

Est. 6 March 1941. Formed from parts of Fergana Oblast. 

Bukhara Oblast (Bukharskaya Oblast) 


Area: 33,400 sq, miles 

Adm. c.: Bukhara (Pop;: 50,382) 

Est. 15 January 1938. The Surkhan-Darya 0kru o split off on 
6 March 1941 to become on oblast. On 20 January 194c the area 
which before its absorption into Bukhara Oblast in 1938, consti¬ 
tuted the independent Kashka-Darya Okrug, split off from Bukhara 
Oblast and became the Kashka-Darya Oblast. 

/Surkhan-Darya Okrug (Surkhan-Darinski Okrug)/ 

Area: 7,850 sq. miles 

Pop.: 263,300 (as of 1 January 1933) 

Adm. c.: Termez . 

Est. 23 February 195.5., Put under the Bukhara Oblast when the 
latter was created. .Became an oblast 6;March,1941. 












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Fergana Oblast (Ferganskaya Oblast) 
Area: 6,500 so. miles 

Adm. c.: Fergana 


Est. 15 January 1938, On 6 March- 1941 several raions were 
detached to form the Andizhan Oblast and the Namangan Oblast. 

Kashka-Darya Oblast (Kashka-Darinskaya Oblast) 


Aim. c.: Karshi 

Est. on 20 January 1943. Originally set up as a seperate okrug 
(February 1935), in January 1938 it'was-attached to the Bukhara 
Oblast. 

/Ka shka-Darya Okrug (Keshka-Darin ski Okrug) ~f 

Area: 1C. , 075 Sq. Miles (as of 1 March 1937) 

Pop.: 366,200 (as of 1 January 1933) 


Adm. c.: Bek-Budi 


Est. 23 February 1935. Abolished 15 January 1938 and its 
territory absorbed into Bukhara Oblast. Revived in January 1943 
as an oblast. 

Khorezm Oblast (Xhcrezmskaya Oblast) 

Area: 1,800 sq. miles 

Adm. c.: Urgench 

Est. 15 January 1938. Formerly an okrug. 

/Khorezm Ok rug (Khorezmski Okrug) / 

Area: 1,775 sq. miles (as of 1 March 1937) 

Pop.: 353,900 (as of 1 January 1033). 

Adm. c„: Novo-Urgench 

Est.- 23 April 1932. Became an oblast, 15 January 1938. 

Raman g< or Obi as t (Nrmanganskayu Oblast) 

Adm. c.: Namangan (Pop.: 77,351) 

Est. 6 'Torch 1941. Formed from parts of Fergana Oblast. 

» * . « 

Samark a nd Oblast (Sumarkandskaya Oblast) 

Area: 10,700 sc. miles 

Adm. c.: Samarkand (Pop.: 154,346) 

Est. 15 January 1933 

Surkhan-Darya Oblast (Surkhan Darinskaya Oblast) 

■ *• , \ 

Area: 7,850 sq. miles (as an okrug) : 

Adm. c,: Termez • » 

Est. 6 March 1941. Formerly an okrug in Bukhara Oblast. 











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Tashkent Oblast (Tashkentskaya Oblast) 

Area: 5,750 sq. miles 

Adm. c.t Tashkent (Pop.: 585,000) 

Sst. 15 January 1938 

ESTONIAN SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLIC 
(Estonskaya SSR) 

Area: 18,350 sq. miles (as of December 1940) 

Pop.: 1,120,000 (as of December 1940) 

Capital: Tallin (Pop.: 146,000) 

Est. 6 August 1940 


KARELI A; -FINN I SH SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLIC 
(Karelo-Finskaya SSR) 


Aren; 75,700 sq. miles (as of December 1940) 

Pep.: Over 500,000 (estimated as of April 1940) 

Capital: Petrozavodsk (Pop.: 69,700) 

Est. 31 March 1940. Created from the former Karelian ASSR plus most 
of the territory taken from Finland by the treaty of 12 March 1940. 

The boundary with the RSFSR was fixed on 8 August 1940 (for details of 
boundary, see Vodomesti Verkhovnogo Soveta, SSSR , 12 September 1940, 

p. 1). 

* > 

LATVIA N SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLIC 
(L atviiskay a SSR) 

Area: 25,400 sq. miles (as of December 1940) 

Pop.: 1,950,000 (as of December 1940) 

Capital: Riga (Pop.: 385,000) 

Est. 5 August 940. 


LITE . &1IIAT SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLIC 


(Litovskaya SSR) 


'AreS: 1 25.050*sq. miles (as of December 1940) 

Pop.: About 2,880,000 (as of December 1940) 

Capital: Vilno (Pop.: 215,000) 

Est. 3 August 1940. Its boundary with the Yi/hite Russian SSR was 
fixed on 13 November 1940 (for details see Vedomosti Verkhovnogo 
Soveta SSSR, 13 November 1940, p. 4). 


MOLDAVIA; SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLIC 

' (Moldavskaya SSR) 

Area: 13,000 sq. miles (as of December 1940) 

Pop. : 2,400,000 (as of Docember 1940) 

Capital: Kishinev (Pop.: 112,100) 











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Est. 2 August 1940. Includes a part of the former Moldavian ASSR of 
the Ukrainian SSR plus the major parts of annexed Bessarabia. Its 
boundary with the Ukrainian SSR was fixed on 4 November 1940 (for 
details, see Vodomosti Verkhovnogo Soveta SSSR , 13 November 1940. 

MILITARY DISTRICTS OF THE USSR 

The Soviet Union is divided into military districts, which, as of 
the end of 1940, were nineteen in number, and were as follows: 


Military District 

Headquarters 

Special Western 

Minsk 

Odessa 

Odessa 

Central Asiatic 

Alma Ata 

North Caucasus 

Rostov 

Trans-Caucasus 

Tbilisi 

Orel 

Orel 

i 

Siberian 

Irkutsk 

Ural' 

Sverdlovsk 

Trans-Baikal 

i 

Chita 

Volga 

Kuibyshev 

Moscow 

Mo s c ow 

Leningrad 

Leningrad 

Kiev 

Kiev 

Kharkov 

Kharkov 

Kalinin 

Kalinin 

First Far Eastern 

Vladivostok * 

Second Far Eastern 

Khabarovsk 

Baltic (created in December 1940) 

Riga 

Archangel (created in December 1940) 

Archangel 


, p. 209-210. 


Source: Scott, John. DuelforEurope, Boston, 1942 







INDEX 


- A - Page 


Abkhaz i an AS SR - ~ 36 
Adygei A.O. 3, 9 
Adzhar ASSR 36 
Aginskoye Buryat-Mongol N.O. 4 
Akkerman Oblast / ■ 26 
Akmolinsk Oblast ' 57 
Aktyubinsk Oblast , '37 
Aldan Okrug •• 25 
Alma-Ata Obla st 37 
Altai Krai 2 
Amur Oblast 7 
Andizhan Oblast 43 
Archangel Oblast 2 
Argayash N.O. 3 
Armenian SSR 35 
Ashkhab ad Obiast 42 
Azerbaidzhan SSR > 35 
Azov-Black Sea Krai 3 


- 3 - 



Baranovichi Oblast 


33 

Bashkir ASSR 


21 

Belorussian SSR 


53 

Belostok Oblast 


33 

Brest Oblast 


33 

Bukhara Oblast 


43 

Buryat-Mongol ASSR 


21 


- C - 

.Central Black Soil Oblast 

19 

Chardzhou Oblast 

42 

Chechen - Ingush ASSR 

21 

Chelyabinsk Oblast 

a 

Cherkess A.O. 

18 

Chernigov Oblast 

26 

Chernovitsy Oblast 

27 

Chita Oblast 

4 

Chkalov Oblast 

4 

Chukchi N.O. 

7 

Chuvash ASSR 

21 

Crimean ASSR 

22 


- D - 

Dagestan ASSR 22 

Dalne-Vostochny Krai 

(See: Far Eastern Krai) 


Dnepropetrovsk Oblast 27 

Dolgano-Nenets N.O,, 

(See: Taimyr N.O.')' 

Donets Oblast 27 

Drogobych Oblast 27 

Dzhalal-Abad Oblast 40 

Dzhalal-Abad Okrug . . 40 

Dzhambul Oblast " S3 



East Kazakhstan Oblast 38 

East Siberian Krai 4 


- S - (Cont’d) 

Page 

Estonian SSR 

45 

Evenki N.O. 

10 


v 


— A* — 


Far Eastern Krai 

5 

Fergana Oblast 

44 

Frunze Oblast 

40 


- G - 

• • 


Garm Oblast 

it 

41 

Georgian SSR 


36 

Gomel Oblast 


33 

Gorki Oblast 


5 

Gorno Badakhshan A.O. 


41 

Gorskaya /SSR 

(See: Mountain AS SR) 
Gruzinskaya SSR 

(See: Georgian SSR) 
Guryev Oblast 

r 

38 

Guryev Okrug 


38 


- I - 


Irkutsk Oblast 6 
Issyk-Kul Oblast 40 
Issyk-Kul Okrug 40 
Ivanovo Oblast 6 
Izmail Oblast 28 


Jewish A.O. 8 




Kabardino-Balkarian /.SSR 22 
Kalinin Oblast 6 
Kalmyk ASSR 22 
Kamchatka Oblast • 7 
Kamenets-Podolsk Oblast 28 
Kamenets-Podolsk Okrug 31 
Karachayev ^.0. ' 18 
Karaganda Oblast 38 
Kara-Kalpak ASSR 43 
Karelian -.SSR 23 
Karelian-Finnish SSR 45 
Karelian N. 0. 7 
Kashka-Darya Oblast 44 
Kashka-Darya Okrug 44 
Kazak ASSR 37 
Kazakh SSR 37 
Kemerovo Oblast 7 
Kerki Okrug 42 
Khabarovsk Krai 7 
Khabarovsk Oblast S 
Khakass A.O. 9 
Khanty -Aiansiisk N. 0. 15 
Kharkov Oblast 28 







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- K - (Cont’d) 

Page 

Khorezm Oblast 

44 

Khorezm Okrug 

44 

Kiev Oblast 

28 

Kingisopp Okrug 

11 

Kirgiz ASSR 

23, 37 

Kirgiz SSR 

39 

Kirov Oblast 

9 

Kirovograd Oblast 

29 

Kizlyar Okrug 

19 

Kolyma Administrative Okrug 

8 

Komi ASSR 

23 

Komi-Perm N.O. 

13 

Korosten Okrug 

28 

Koryak N.O. 

8 

Krasnodar Krai 

9 

Krasnovodsk Oblast 

42 

Krasnoyarsk Krai 

9 

Krymskaya ASSR 

(See: Crimean ASSR) 


Kuibyshev Oblast 

10 

Kulyab Oblast 

41 

Kurgan Oblast 

10 

Kursk Oblast 

10 

Kustanai Oblast 

38 

Kzyl-Orda Oblast 

39 


- L - 


Latvian SSR 45 
Leninabad Oblast 41 
Leningrad Oblast 11 
Lithuanian SSR 45 
Litovskaya SSR 

(See: Lithuanian SSR) 

Lower Amur Oblast • 8 
Lower Volga Krai 11 
Lvov Oblast 29 


- M - 


- M - 


Mari ASSR 

23 

Maritime Krai 

12 

Maritime Oblast 

12 

Mary Oblast 

42 

Middle Volga Krai 

12 

Minsk Oblast 

CO 

Mogilev Oblast 

34 

Mogilev-Podolsk Okrug 

31 

Moldavian ASSR 

32 

Moldavian SSR 

45 

Molotov Oblast 

12 

Mordvin ASSR 

24 

Moscow Oblast 

• 13 

Mountain ASSR 

. 22 

Murmansk Oblast 

13 

Murmansk Okrug 

11 


- N - 


Nagorno-Karabakh A.O. 

35 

Nakhichevan ASSR 

35 

Namangan Oblast 

44 


- N - (Cont'd) Page 


Narym Okrug 14 

Nemtsev Povolzhya ASSR 

(See: Volga German ASSR) 

Nenets N.O. 2 

Nikolayev Oblast 29 

Nizhegorod Krai _ 15 


Nizhne-Amurskaya Oblast. 

(See: Lower Amur Oblast) 
Nizhne-Volzhski Krai 

(See: Lower Volga Krai) 


North Caucasian Krai 14 
Northern Oblast 3, 14 
North Kazakhstan Oblast 39 
North Osetian ASSR 24 
Novograd-Volynin Okrug 28 
Novosibirsk Oblast 14 


- 0 - 


Ob-Irtysh Oblast 

14 

Odessa Oblast 

29 

Oirot A.O. 

2 

Omsk Oblast 

15 

Opochka Okrug 

6 

Ordzhonikidze Krai 

16 

Orel Oblast 

16 

Orenburg Oblast 

16 

Osh Oblast 

40 

Osh Okrug 

40 

Ostyak-Vogul N.O. 

15 


- 

P - 


Pavlodar Oblast 


39 

Pechora Okrug 


23 

Penza Oblast 


16 

Perm Oblast 


16 

Pinsk Oblast 


34 

Polesye Oblast 


• 34 

Poltava Oblast 


; ■ 29 

Pri morskaya Obi ast 


(See: Maritime 

Oblast) 


Primorski Krai 



(See: Maritime 

Krai) 


Proskurov Okrug 


- 31 

Pskov Okrug 


11 


- R - 


Rostov Oblast 

17 

Rovno Oblast 

30 

RSFSR 

2 

Ryazan Oblast 

17 


- S - 


Sakhalin Oblast 

8 

Samarkand Oblast 

44 

Saratov Oblast 

■ ■ | i 

17 

Semipalatinsk Oblast 

Severnaya Oblast 

(See: Northern Oblast) 

39 




49 


- S - (Cont’d) Page 

Savero-Kavkazski Krai 

(Seo: North Caucasian Krai) 
Severo-Kazokhstanskaya Oblast 
(See: North Kazakhstan Oblast) 


Scvero-Osetinskaya ASSR 
(Soo: North Osetian ASSR) 


Shopotovka Okrug 

31 

Siberian Krai 

17 

Smolensk Oblast 

r» 

( 

South-Eastern Oblast 

17 

South Kazakhstan Oblast 

39 

South Osetian A.O. 

36 

Sredne-Volzhski Krai 

(See: Middle Volga Krai) 

Stalinabad Obiast 

41 

Stalingrad Oblast 

18 

Stalino Oblast 

30 

Stanislav Oblast 

30 

Starobelsk Okrug 

27 

Stavropol Krai 

18 

Sumy Oblast 

30 

Surkhan-Darya Oblast 

44 

Surkhan-Darya Okrug 

43 

Sverdlovsk Oblast 

19 

- T - 

Tadzhik SSR 

41 

Taimyr (Dolgano-Nenets) N.O. 

10 

Tambov Oblast 

19 

Tara Okrug 

15 

Ternopol Oblast 

30 

Tashauz Oblast 

42 

Tashauz Okrug 

43 

Tashkent Oblast 

45 

Tatar ASSR 

24 

Tobolsk Okrug 

15 

Trans-Caucasian SFSR 

35 

T s entralno-Che rno zemnaya Ob1 

ast 

(See: Central Black Soil 

Oblast) 

Tula Oblast 

19 

Turkmen SSR 

42 

Tyan-Shcn Oblast 

40 

Tyan-Shan Okrug 

41 

- U - 

Udmurt ASSR 

24 

Ukrainian SSR 

26 

Ulyanovsk Oblast 

19 

Ural Oblast 

20 

USSR 

1 

Ussuri Oblast 

12, 20 

Ust-Orda Burynt-Mongol N.O. 

6 

Uzbek SSR 

43 


- V - 


Velikiye Luki Okrug 

6 

Viloika Oblast 

34 

Vinnitsa Oblast 

31 

Vitebsk Oblast 

34 


- V - (Cont’d) Pago 


Volga Gorman ASSR 24 
Vologda Oblast 2,0- 
Volynia Oblast 31 
Voronezh Oblast 20 
Voroshilovgrad Oblast 31 


Vostochno-Kazakhstanskaya Oblast 
(Soes East Kazakhstan Oblast) 
Vostochno-Sibirski Krai 
(Soe:Sast Siberian Krai) 


- W - 


Western Oblast 

20 

West Kazakhstan Oblast 

39 

West Siberian Krai 

20 

White Russian SSR 



(Soo: Belorussian SSR) 


- Y - 


Yakut ASSR 

25 

Yamal-Nenets N.O. 

15 

Yaroslavl Oblast 

21 

Yevroiskaya -u.,0. 



(See: Jowish A.0.) 
Yugo-Osotinskaya A.O. 

(Seo: South Osetian .»..0.) 
Yugo-Vostochnaya Oblast 

(See: South-Eastern Oblast) 
Yuzhno-Kazakhstanskaya Oblast 
(See: South Kazakhstan Oblast) 


- Z - 

Zakavkazskaya SFSR 

(See; Trans-Caucasian SFSR) 
Zapadnaya Oblast 

(Seo: Western Oblast) 

Zapadno—Kazakhstanskaya Oblast 
(See: West Kazakhstan Oblast) 
Zapadno-Sibirski Krai 

(See: West Siberian Krai) 


Zaporozhye Oblast 32 
Zeya Oblast 5 
Zhitomir Oblast 32 
Zhitomir Okrug 29 











































t 






















FREE 


administrative 


DIVISIONS OF THE U.S.S.R. 


MAY, 1943 


Kara-Kalpak A.S.S.R. 




Andizhan 


Bukhara 

CO 

Fergana 

t— 

Kashka-Darya 

CO 

Khorezm 

< 

Namangan 


Samarkand 

CO 

Surkhan-Darya 

o 

Tashkent 



Dzhalal-Abad 
Frunze 
Issyk-Kul 


Tyan-Shan 



Akmolinsk 

Aktyubinsk 

Alma-Ata 

Dzhambul 

East Kazakhstan 

Guryev 

Karaganda 

Kustanai 

Kzyl-Orda 

North Kazakhstan 

Pavlodar 

Semipalatinsk 

South Kazakhstan 

West Kazakhstan 


o 


& 


1. Taimyr (Dolgano-Nenets) N.O. 

2. Evenki N.O. 

3. Koryak N.O. 

4. Chukchi (Chukotski) N.O. 


6. Aginskoye Buryat-Mongol N.O. 

7. Ust-Orda Buryat-Mongol N.O. 

8. Komi-Perm N.O. 

9. Khanty-Mansiisk N.O. 

H N n 


a. Raions immediately subordinated to Maritime Krai Executive 
Committee 

b. Raions immediately subordinated to Khabarovsk Krai 
Executive Committee 






1 . 


2 . 



£ 


<2 


3. 4. 


CX 


6 . 


m 


9. 


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